STEPHEN Conroy has won legal recognition as the father of his baby daughter, born one year ago through a surrogacy arrangement in Sydney.

And the incoming federal Communications Minister has urged the State Government to change the law to make it easier for other infertile couples to become parents.

Senator Conroy has spoken exclusively to The Age about how the flaws and anomalies in Victorian fertility legislation are putting barriers in the way of childless couples.

He said the law had not kept up with science and was failing to adequately protect children conceived through surrogacy.

“A number of changes that have been created by science have been ignored by the law, and that’s led to circumstances like my own, where I was forced to go interstate to have a child through surrogacy,” he said. “This caused increased stress, increased cost, and a whole range of legal complications.”

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