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Former treasurer Peter Costello unveiled the baby bonus in 2004. New research it increased births by 1300 a month.

The baby bonus worked – at $86,000 for each extra child

New research suggests Peter Costello’s baby bonus encouraged families to have extra children – but, like all babies, they weren’t cheap.

  • Shane Wright

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Invented in the 1990s, ICSI was designed for couples with severe male infertility,

Single and aged 31, I froze my eggs through IVF. Now I’m faced with a difficult choice

In Australia, there are three options for surplus eggs and embryos. All come with complexities and complications.

  • Hannah Bambra
Documents released to NSW parliament have revealed mine workers recorded blood lead levels six times the threshold for intervention.

Mines blocked health warnings to workers with toxic blood lead levels

Documents reveal thousands of NSW residents have been exposed to potential lead harm, including mine workers with up to 16 times the threshold to notify authorities.

  • Angus Thomson
Hannah Kaine and Alex Brook will be getting married in April but have decided not to have children.

Maybe no baby: Australian couples ditch traditional values about family, work and marriage

The number of women who never want to have children has almost doubled over the past two decades as both sexes in prime child-rearing ages shun the idea of starting families.

  • Shane Wright and Nick Newling
John and Ross, and their baby boy.

Ross and John weren’t sure they’d get to celebrate Father’s Day. A new WA law hopes to change that

Ross and his partner John had to fly to Canada in order to start their family due to WA’s restrictive surrogacy laws. There’s hope a new bill set to go before parliament this week will change everything.

  • Hannah Murphy
Lewis Rankin with baby Rosie, who was born a year after his firstborn, Poppy, was lost to stillbirth.

‘We celebrate both girls’: How Lewis marks Father’s Day after losing his firstborn

Three dads share their very different paths to fatherhood, but they are all united by one thing.

  • Kim Wilson
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Charlotte Storey with daughters Eva, 3, and Rose, 5.

More women are choosing to solo parent, and here’s why

Being single didn’t stop Charlotte Storey from becoming a mum. She’s among a record number getting their way.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Sydney’s baby divide

Sydney’s great baby divide: How fertile is your suburb?

Babies are increasingly scarce in some neighbourhoods.

  • Matt Wade
IVF data breach affects many.

‘Emotionally devastating’: Victims of IVF data breach seeking class action

One of Australia’s largest IVF providers has sought to suppress details of how sensitive medical information was breached and put on the dark web for sale.

  • Kayla Olaya and Kate Aubusson
Alana Jones has frozen 50 of her eggs hoping to have a baby using mitochondrial donation to avoid passing on a rare genetic condition.

Would-be mothers to get ‘more transparency’ on what egg-freezing may do

As the IVF industry undergoes unprecedented scrutiny, and egg-freezing rates increase sharply, women want more transparency around the likely outcomes of the expensive procedure, specialists say.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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