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The Daily Telegraph newspaper in New South Wales, Australia has reported that a gay couple has had the ban on them becoming foster parents overturned and have been awarded $10000 compensation. The story appeared in the Daily Telegraph by Bruce McDougall.

[ More Australian Gay Parenting News available at http://gaydadsaustralia.blogspot.com ]

A GAY couple have won a landmark discrimination case after they were banned from becoming foster parents because they are homosexual.

Children born through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to lesbian mothers will have the same rights as those of heterosexual couples, under law changes announced by the NSW government.

Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said he had accepted NSW Law Reform recommendations extending "parental presumption" provisions to cover gay mums.

It was estimated 20 per cent of the state's female same-sex couples had children, Mr Hatzistergos said.

The change affects those born through IVF or artificial fertilisation only, by granting parenting rights and obligations to the non-biological mother.

Hi from Australia. Late last year (2007) we worked with National Geographic in Australia to present a story of how we (Rodney and Jeff) became dads to a wonderful baby boy called Ethan.

You can view it on You Tube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSayHl535HE

Gay Dads Australia is in the process of archiving Australian media reports in relation to Gay Dads, Lesbian Mums/Moms and Rainbow Families in Australia. The sites aim is to provide a resource for those people interested in looking at how our Rainbow Families are portrayed in the Australian print and television media.

Just a short introduction to say hi from Rodney and Jeff and our son Ethan from Richmond, Victoria in Australia. We are a gay male couple who have had a son via surrogacy. Our son was born in Ohio to our wonderful surrogate, Kelly. Ethan is now 12 months old and just started walking....boy are we kept on our toes!

We are part of an ever growing group in Australia of Gay men and couples who are having children via surrogacy in the US. It is illegal to practice commercial surrogacy in AUstralia, so we all need to venture to places like the US or Canada in order to create our family.