What a new FOI release reveals about the ALRC surrogacy laws review

Emma and Amber unpack a newly released Freedom of Information document showing how the Attorney-General's Department and the Australian Law Reform Commission negotiated the terms of reference for the ALRC's surrogacy law review, before those terms were ever made public. They cover what the correspondence confirms, what's been withheld under the FOI Act's deliberative process exemption, the ALRC's undisclosed request for a reporting extension, and the case for why a recommendation to prohibit surrogacy sits squarely within the ALRC's own terms of reference.

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