Western Australia’s Health Minister, Roger Cook, says surrogacy reform is still on the agenda for the McGowan government despite setbacks. In 2019 discussions over the bill saw fiery debates in the state’s lower house, but when the legislation moved to the upper house Liberal MP Nick Goiran delivered a filibuster speech that dragged on for […]
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7 Mar 2020 /
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Introduction of Western Australia’s new surrogacy laws may have been dealt another blow with legal advice suggesting the proposed legislation could be discriminatory towards women. Health Minister Roger Cook (pictured) has argued that the current laws need to be changed because they are discriminatory towards male same-sex couples and single men. Cook has argued that […]
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30 Jun 2019 |
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Opposition leader Dr Mike Nahan has defended Liberal MP Nick Goiran’s epic filibuster speech on changing the state’s surrogacy laws saying the politician is just showing how passionate he is about the topic. Since debate in the Legislative Council began in mid February Goiran has been the only speaker to voice any thoughts on the […]
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5 Apr 2019 |
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Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, the shadow leader in Britain’s House of Lords has told OUTinPerth that a WA Liberal politician Nick Goiran is “fundamentally mistaken” regarding his position on marriage. Earlier this week the WA Liberal delivered a speech in parliament that argued against same sex marriage on the basis it would lead to incestuous […]
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16 Aug 2013 |
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