February 18, 2026 | ABC
An Australian couple had a child via surrogacy in Argentina last year, but around the same time, Argentina changed its regulations around surrogacy, and the surrogate is currently recognized as the legal parent. The couple cannot return with their baby to Australia until one of them is recognized as a legal parent. Australia is cautioning intended parents against pursuing surrogacy in Argentina given the new regulations.
Nine News | February 3, 2026
The Australian government has advised against pursuing surrogacy in Argentina. Surrogacy operates in a grey area in Argentina, and authorities appear to be taking steps to block surrogacy arrangements, including by refusing entry of foreign intended parents to the country.
ABC | December 3, 2025
New legislation that passed West Australia’s lower house of Parliament in December will expand access to assisted reproductive technologies and non-compensated surrogacy to same-sex couples, single people, and trans and intersex people.
ABC News | October 25, 2025
The country of Georgia has become a hub for compensated surrogacy, especially for Australian intended parents. However, unethical practices and exploitation of surrogates raise concerns about the industry and the limited regulations governing it.
The West Australian | October 13, 2025
With pledged support from the Greens, the Labor party’s surrogacy reforms that passed Western Australia’s lower house of Parliament in September now have a better chance of passing the Upper House. The reforms would expand access to surrogacy to LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples.
Q News | September 19, 2025
Western Australia currently bans non-compensated surrogacy for gay and single men. A bill that passed the Lower House of Parliament would eliminate the ban and would give donor-conceived people more access to information about their heritage, but it first has to pass the Upper House of Parliament.
ABC | August 12, 2025
A bill will be introduced in Western Australia’s parliament to reform the state’s laws on IVF and surrogacy. The changes would expand access to non-compensated surrogacy to include same-sex male couples, single men, transgender and intersex people, and would enable recognition of two same-sex partners as legal parents of children born via surrogacy.
Debate grows over Australia’s surrogacy laws as more couples look overseas
ABC News | June 27, 2025
Increasingly, Australians are going abroad for surrogacy arrangements, in part because Australia only allows non-compensated surrogacy. The Australian Law Reform Commission is conducting a review of the country’s surrogacy laws, but debate over the ethics of compensated surrogacy continues.
Should commercial surrogacy be allowed in Australia?
ABC News AM | June 26, 2025
Although compensated surrogacy is currently illegal in Australia, an ongoing review of the law could change that. Some advocates argue that allowing surrogates to be paid would make it easier for intended parents to find surrogates in Australia and would avoid the issue of lawyers and clinicians being paid, while the surrogate is not. Opponents of legalization argue it would lead to exploitation of vulnerable women, citing examples of recent cases in India and Thailand.
Neos Kosmos | December 19, 2023
A fertility clinic in Crete was shut down earlier this year on charges that the clinic coerced women from Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia to become surrogates and egg donors, leaving some babies separated from intended parents amid the investigation.
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Now, some intended parents from Australia have been able to take their children home to Australia, while others are still navigating legal challenges and uncertainties from the clinic to sort out ownership of gametes and embryos.
ABC | November 18, 2023
The Australian Capital Territory government introduced a bill updating its surrogacy laws. The changes would allow single parents to have a child via altruistic surrogacy and remove the requirement for an intended parent to be genetically related to the child.
