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Tuesday 5 August 2008

Qld: Bligh- adoptions are not going to include same sex couples

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has made plain that Queensland, in overhauling its adoption laws, will not remove the effective ban on same sex couples adopting.

Stephen Page at 06:30

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Stephen Page: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; I am one of Australia's leading fertility and divorce lawyers. I was admitted as a solicitor in 1987, and have been an accredited family law specialist since 1996.I have undertaken family law either as a solicitor or as a full time articled law clerk since 1985. I am a partner of Page Provan, family and fertility lawyers, Brisbane. I am an international representative on the American Bar Association's Artificial Reproductive Technology Committee. I am a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. I am a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, one of the most prestigious family law groups in the world. I am a founding member of the Australian Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. I have written and spoken extensively about family law, domestic violence and surrogacy throughout Australia and internationally. I have handled pretty well every type of family law case there is known in over 30 years, and have advised surrogacy/fertility clients from throughout Australia and at last count 30 countries overseas. I have obtained parentage orders in Qld, NSW, Vic and SA- the only lawyer to have done so.

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