Following the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report, Same-Sex: Same Entitlements, the Australian Government introduced reforms in 2008 to remove discrimination against same-sex couples and their children in Commonwealth law.
Jenni Millbank is a Barrister and Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Jenni has an extensive background in family law and same-sex relationship recognition. She can answer your questions on relationship rights, property matters and parenting issues.
Individual lesbians and gay men are eligible to apply for adoption in NSW, but same-sex couples are not. This discrimination simply makes no sense and denies children with lesbian and gay parents legal recognition of their families.
The NSW Government has announced a parliamentary inquiry into same-sex adoption. Join our campaign to remove this final piece of same-sex couple discrimination from NSW law.
After a historic debate in NSW Parliament, in June 2008 the Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby finally broke the stalemate on parenting reforms in NSW.
The Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Act 2008 provides equal parenting rights to co-mothers of children born through assisted reproduction and allows both mums to be listed on their child's birth certificate.
Following the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report, Same-Sex: Same Entitlements, the Australian Government introduced reforms in 2008 to remove discrimination against same-sex couples and their children in Commonwealth law.
Individual lesbians and gay men are eligible to apply for adoption in NSW, but same-sex couples are not. This discrimination simply makes no sense and denies children with lesbian and gay parents legal recognition of their families.
After a historic debate in NSW Parliament, in June 2008 the Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby finally broke the stalemate on parenting reforms in NSW.