Lesley Robinson

Jun 27, 2024 | abc.net.au | Grace Tobin |Lesley Robinson

Maria thought she was doing the right thing by connecting with the sperm donor she used to conceive her baby through fertility giant Monash IVF. "I had joined some forums when my son was born, there was a particular group who advocated for children knowing the donor as soon as possible," Maria said. "That's why I decided to make contact."To begin with, the donor's emails to Maria (not her real name) were friendly and harmless. But things took a sinister turn in January this year.

Jun 24, 2024 | abc.net.au | Grace Tobin |Lesley Robinson |Katri Uibu

Amelia Hawkshaw and her husband Zach Longe's round of IVF produced 17 embryos. Seventeen chances to make their dream of becoming parents come true. "We were so overjoyed," Amelia said. But that dream turned to tragedy in August last year. "We got a call … to say that the embryos had been contaminated with bacteria and so those 17 had to be destroyed, just all of them," Amelia said.

Jun 23, 2024 | abc.net.au | Lesley Robinson

Anastasia and Lexie Gunn love their three children no matter what, but the mystery of what went wrong with their conception at one of Australia's biggest fertility clinics haunts them. "We had IVF and got the wrong sperm," Lexie said. "It's shattered what we all believe to be true."Their three sons were conceived through donor sperm at the Queensland Fertility Group (QFG) between 2006 and 2014. The couple paid for the same donor to be used for each child.

Jun 22, 2024 | abc.net.au | Grace Tobin |Lesley Robinson

In short: An Australian woman says she could now have up to 700 half-siblings after she discovered her biological father was a prolific sperm donor. The man donated for at least six years from 1983. What's next? The woman says the IVF clinics responsible aren't doing enough and she is urgently trying to find her potential siblings to share critical health information. Katherine Dawson was always comfortable with her origin story.

Mar 31, 2024 | abc.net.au | Elise Worthington |Lesley Robinson |Nick Wiggins

Inside a brown parcel, under layers of plastic and wet foil wrapping, nestled in between two no-longer frozen ice packs, is a vial of red liquid. This is replica Ozempic — ordered without a script via text, paid for through PayPal, and sent to a suburban post office. A Four Corners investigation has discovered vials like this are being illegally shipped across the world from a house on the outskirts of Sydney.