03.06.2025
The Issues Paper introduces our inquiry and explains what we have been asked to do. It provides a brief overview of surrogacy laws in Australia.
The Issues Paper also sets out some principles we may use to guide reform and lists some reform issues that appear to be a high priority. We are interested to know your thoughts about these principles or issues, or any other principles or issues you want us to consider.
There are 27 questions in the Issues Paper that you may wish to answer. We are asking these questions to help us identify the issues or problems that we should examine and to help us develop ideas for reform. You do not need to answer all of the questions.
You are also welcome to comment on any other matters mentioned in the Terms of Reference.
Submissions will close on Friday, 11 July 2025.
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We have also prepared a short Info Sheet about the Issues Paper and a standalone document listing the questions contained in the Issues Paper.
| Download the questions (PDF/Word) |
We are asking for submissions now through the Issues Paper to help us identify the issues we should address and develop ideas for reform. We will also publish a Discussion Paper in November 2025. The Discussion Paper will set out ideas for reform and ask for feedback on those ideas.
You are welcome to make a submission in response to one or both of our papers.
