Melanie had to reimagine her family when she discovered there were no Indigenous sperm donors

"I don't reckon I ever saw more than 10 people on ," Melanie Seward says when reflecting on her journey to conceive using a sperm donor in Australia. "Something has to be done about donations in this country." When the Bigambul and Wakka Wakka writer first approached a Queensland IVF clinic in 2018, she was seeking an Aboriginal sperm donor to maintain her family's connection.

Last year, the Victorian Government launched a public sperm and egg bank to 'give more Victorians the chance to start a family'. The Feed has spoken with one Victorian parent who crossed the border into NSW to get around Victoria's restrictions on international donors — they now have a baby. "We've been advertising trying to encourage donors to come along to donate sperm," says Dr Frank Quinn of IVF Australia, an IVF company.

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