Communications Between The Department And The Australian Law Reform Commission While Conducting Its Inquiry Into Surrogacy Law Reform.

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The Attorney-General's Department provided the Australian Law Reform Commission with proposed terms of reference for a surrogacy laws inquiry in June 2024. The correspondence shows initial communication between Kathleen Denley (Family Law Branch, AG Department) and ALRC officials (Justice Bromberg and Ruth Barson) to arrange a meeting to discuss the draft inquiry scope. The terms of reference were developed based on findings from the 2016 Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs report "Surrogacy Matters" and a Council of Attorneys-General Working Group on surrogacy. The materials were shared in confidence with the Attorney-General's request and also provided to the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Immigration due to their portfolio interests. Substantial redactions were applied under section 22(1) (personal information) and section 47C(1) (Commonwealth legal professional privilege), obscuring specific contact details, names, and potentially substantive legal advice or opinion within the communications.