A West Australian MP has delivered a filibuster on surrogacy law reform stretching more than 12 hours to give MPs more time to consider a new surrogacy review only just published by the government.
Liberal Party MP Nick Goiran said he plans to continue the filibuster so MPs can read the report before a proposed bill comes to a vote that would allow single men and same sex couples to access altruistic surrogacy arrangements.
Mr Goiran said MPs have only had 10 days to read the report and should be entitled to have the same 10 weeks the Government has had to consider the report.
The LNP’s MP Nick Goiran has already used a total of nearly five-and-a-half hours of speaking time over four sitting days to speak about the bill, at times quoting at length from articles on the topic.