Australian surrogacy legislation punishes the pursuit of a commercial surrogacy arrangement as a criminal offence. Such legislation was first introduced in Victoria in 1986 and has since been applied in every Australian ...

The three clear functions that the Commonwealth Ombudsman has currently reflecting a change in emphasis towards what may be broadly termed the quality control of government administration are discussed. The need is for ...

The traditional core functions of a classical ombudsman are the investigation of individual complaints and own motion investigations of administrative action into areas of systemic importance. The ombudsman institution is ...

The only Australian case which has specifically dealt with the question of a self-identifying lesbian accessing artificial reproductive technology (ART) I is a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of ...

It has been a quarter of a century since the first reported decision was handed down with respect to surrogate motherhood by a common law court. Since that initial decision Australian jurisdictions and the United ...

Australia is the first jurisdiction in the world to introduce a national private telecommunications industry ombudsman. Created in 1993. the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has grown in jurisdiction and ...