To progress the rights, social and legal status of Australians using Surrogacy overseas and within Australia.
This website supports Australians who are planning on, or who are already parents via surrogacy arrangements. We are an incorporated charity, registered with the Australian Charities and Non-Profits Commission.
To this effect, we work with
- Politicians to educate and lobby for laws which protect surrogates, intending parents and children, in a process which requires careful planning and protections
- Academics to encourage quality research into outcomes for surrogates and children born through surrogacy
- Media to dispel misconceptions around the motives, the process and the outcomes for intending parents, surrogates and children
Non-Executive Directors
All the positions below are voluntary roles, elected at SA’s AGM each year
- President: Michael Langtree
- Secretary: Karen Mills
- Treasurer: Felicity Kennedy
- Government Relations: Matthew Jones
- Corporate relations: Naomi Seddon
- Domestic Intended Parent representative: TBA
- International Intended Parent representatives: Karen Mills; Gabby Goldberg; and Felicity Kennedy
State representatives
- QLD: vacant
- TAS: vacant
- WA: Hayley Christidis
- SA: vacant
- VIC: Gabby Goldberg
- NSW: Karen Mills
- ACT: Felicity Kennedy
- NT: Rebecca Want de Rowe
SASS Support manager: Anna McKie (paid part-time)
SASS Mentors
Surrogates: Hayley Christidis (WA), Charmaine Stall (QLD), Marnie McIntyre (NSW), Amanda Meehan (VIC)
Parents: Lisa and Henry Leggett (VIC), Mike Collins and Glenn Trainor (VIC), Kristy Green (ACT), Ben Warner and Terry (QLD), Mahesh Oliver and Phil (NSW), Juan Fernandez and Christian (NSW), Marian Sandberg (SA)