As the average life expectancy in Australia continues to increase, people are starting families later, retiring later and perusing pastimes later in life.  

Here’s Professor of Psychology, Nick Haslam from The University of Melbourne talking about the research. 

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The situation is confusing and there’s a lot of information in the community. Informer Executive Producer Arion Potts spoke with John Skerrit head of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which oversees medications in Australia. John explains why this happened and what they’re hoping to achieve.

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Dr. Christa Craven has written a new book, Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making. It’s the result of years of work following her own experience. One of the things she found was that many LGBTQ people felt like they were the only ones who faced reproductive loss. The book and companion website offer a number of resources.
Arion Potts spoke with Dr. Craven at the College of Wooster in Ohio in the USA.

Correction: Elizabeth Peel is a psychologist, not a quantitative socialist. Our apologies for the confusion.

Other related studies that Dr. Craven mentioned in our conversation include:

2. • British psychologist Elizabeth Peel’s (2010) Pregnancy Loss In Lesbian And Bisexual Women: An Online Survey Of Experiences. Human Reproduction 25(3): 721-727.
   • Australian psychologist Damien Riggs’ ongoing study “Pregnancy loss: trans and non-binary experiences”
   • American Anthropologist Linda Layne’s (2003) Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America

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The Medevac legislation, passed in February, allows doctors to recommend people be evacuated from Manus and Nauru to Australia for medical treatment. Just over 100 people have been approved for transfer to Australia in around six months of the laws operating.

A Senate committee is reviewing a bill introduced by the Morrison Government which, if passed, would repeal the laws.

David Burke is the senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre and he says the medevac laws are an important safeguard for refugees on Nauru and Manus.

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La Trobe epidemiologist Professor Rachel Huxley, who led the study, talks us through the core findings.

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Earlier this year Dean Arcuri spoke to lesbian mother Fiona Newton and Anne from Rainbow Fertility about the ‘social infertility’ of LBTIQ women in same-sex relationships, and the often prohibitive cost of fertility clinics when starting a family.

Chris and Robert shared their experience with gay conversion therapy, and the damage it causes to vulnerable gay people, and Tom Morgan and Dean Arcuri sat down with Senator Janet Rice to talk about how parliamentarians could legislate against this harmful practice.

This episode of The Informer was hosted by Rachel Tyler Jones and aired on July 31^st, 2018.

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