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• Separation costs Aussie men $110,000 in happiness, women only $8900: researcher http://ow.ly/CHz9

• Surrogacy Qld Style: The Borg's April Fool

  Deputy Qld Opposition Leader Lawrence SpringborgLawrence Springborg has attempted to torpedo the Bligh Government’s proposed surrogacy laws by excluding singles and same sex couples.Qld Attorney-General Cameron DickThe recently released Queensland Government bill, produced by Attorney-General…

• Submission to Qld Government's proposed surrogacy bill

  My submission on the Queensland Government's exposure draft of the Surrogacy Bill:RE: EXPOSURE DRAFT OF THE SURROGACY BILL 2009I wish to make a submission about the above Bill.Congratulations on the Bill.With one exception, I am…

• Record submissions to Senate enquiry for same sex marriage rights: AAP

  A Senate inquiry into same-sex marriage has received more than 26,000 submissions, a record for an Upper House investigation.The Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee is examining a private Bill, introduced by Australian Greens Senator…

• Equal rights rallies on 28 November

  On Friday following the end of work, I walked down George St listening to the raucous sounds of a woman on a megaphone, yelling out something or other. Intrigued, I walked across the road, to…

• Surrogacy: proposed 15 point plan for national laws

  Federal and State and Territory Attorneys-General have agreed to a 15 point plan for consistent surrogacy laws. The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General, the unfortunately named SCAG, issued this communique yesterday:The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General in…

• Same sex domestic violence: Life Matters

  The ABC's Radio National Prorgam has recently highlighted the issue of same sex domestic violence. For the article, click here.

• Last night after the LGBTI meet and greet

  Last night I joined the management committee and other lawyers at a meet and greet to help get up and running Brisbane's LGBTI Legal Service. The service will be the first independent LGBTI legal service…

• Second Class Families: Interstate Recognition of Queer Adoption

  US law student Christine Olson has written a scholarly article-Second Class Families: Interstate Recognition of Queer Adoption [PDF]- about how in the US same sex adoptions are recognised in some States, and not recognised in…

• Scientists can now make eggs and sperm: Nature journal

  U.S. researchers have found a way to coax human embryonic stem cells to turn into the types of cells that make eggs and sperm, shedding light on a stage of early human development that has…