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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
INTERNATIONAL EDITION
2015
India – About a Boy
26 mins 49 secs
| Précis | The decision of the Australian adoptive parents shocked senior Australian judges interviewed by Foreign Correspondent. "It's a criminal offence in many places. I think it's an appalling thing." - Australian judge |
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| The extraordinary case of the twin boy left behind in India was first revealed by Foreign Correspondent and ABC News earlier this year. But his identity and fate have stayed a mystery. "Was the child sold? Was the child left on the street? What has happened to the child?" - Australian judge "Whether he's been placed in a rich, well to do family where he gets every amenity, we don't know." - Arun Dohle, child protection advocate |
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| Reporter Samantha Hawley teams up with two Indian child protection campaigners as they weave through Delhi's labyrinthine bureaucracy and backstreets on a hunt for the twins' birth records, the boy's adoption papers and details of the surrogate mother and Australian parents. Hawley reveals how the case worried Australian consular officials in Delhi. Australian High Commission staff tried desperately to persuade the Australian family to take both twins back home. |
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| But Canberra sent approval for citizenship and a single passport to be given to just one child - the girl - despite international commercial surrogacy being outlawed in the Australian parents' home state. "I would describe it as aiding and abetting the Australian couple abandoning the child." - senior New Delhi lawyer Shekhar Naphade "We have done everything legal." - Australian father of the boy left behind |
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| In this tragic story about one baby boy who became the by-product of an unruly A$500 million industry, two leading judges tell Foreign Correspondent it's now time for the Australian Government to take a lead in reforming the system. |
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| Delhi GVs |
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| Hawley in crowded street PTC | HAWLEY: In a nation of more than a billion people, how do you find just one young child? | 00:06 |
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| Against all the odds we’re on a search for a baby boy left behind in India. | 00:14 |
| Crowded streets |
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| It’s a quest to find a twin boy, born via surrogacy, but not wanted by his Australian parents. | 00:25 |
| Birth certificate. Hawley with Anjali looking at birth certificate | ANJALI PAWAR: “We know the parents’ name and we know the birth date”. | 00:32 |
| Anjali and Hawley search Delhi streets |
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| HAWLEY: The search through the bureaucracy and back streets of the sprawling capital, New Delhi. | 00:38 |
| Anjali to man in crowd | ANJALI PAWAR: [to Indian man] “Is that the best you can do? Don’t you know any better?” | 00:44 |
| Pascoe interview | CHIEF JUDGE JOHN PASCOE: “Was the child sold? Was the child left on the street?” | 00:47 |
| Fireworks/Delhi streets | Music | 00:53 |
| Hawley and Anjali at door | HAWLEY: [speaking through a door] “We are just looking for a baby boy… | 01:00 |
| Hawley on phone | Could you first tell me where the boy is?” | 01:05 |
| Pascoe interview | CHIEF JUDGE JOHN PASCOE: “What has happened to that child?” | 01:07 |
| Boy crying | Music | 01:09 |
| Hawley with mobile on speaker | VOICE OF FATHER ON PHONE: “Please do not chase us. Please leave us alone”. | 01:13 |
| Hawley and Anjali | HAWLEY: This is not the story of just one surrogacy deal gone wrong. It’s the | 01:17 |
| Lab/Slides under microscope | story of an industry that’s wide open for abuse. | 01:22 |
| Sunsets | Music | 01:27 |
| Night traffic. Delhi |
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| HAWLEY: T In 2012 an Australian couple decided to leave their baby | 01:38 |
| DISSOLVE TO: Baby’s hands | boy behind in India. A twin, he was born via a surrogate mother in New Delhi | 01:40 |
| Delivery room | using the sperm of the Australian father. It’s unclear whether a donor egg was used. | 01:46 |
| Plane flies overhead | The Australian parents chose to return home to Sydney with just his sister | 01:52 |
| Baby | and the Australian Government agreed to let them do it. CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “It’s in breach of all sorts of human rights conventions | 01:59 |
| Bryant interview | and criminal... it’s a criminal offence in many places, so I think it’s an appalling thing”. | 02:05 |
| Night. Delhi traffic | Music | 02:10 |
| Babies | HAWLEY: The case highlights the perils of a surrogacy industry that’s drawn hundreds of Australian couples each year to India in search of babies. Now India’s refusing to issue visas to Australians for surrogacy deals. The boy’s case may never have emerged publicly, if not for the passion of two leading Australian judges. CHIEF JUDGE JOHN PASCOE: “Any judge in family law, if he or she were asked to consider | 02:15 |
| Pascoe interview. Super: | someone’s suitability for a parental role | 02:43 |
| Baby | would be deeply concerned that a couple would commission a child and then decide to separate twins. | 02:49 |
| Pascoe | Those children are related, they have the right to know each other”. | 02:58 |
| Night. Traffic | Music | 03:02 |
| Bryant interview. Super: | CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “I think the whole issue of surrogacy is greatly concerning, particularly when there are circumstances in which people can choose the sex of the child and so forth, we’re commoditising children and that’s a huge concern”. | 03:09 |
| Indian woman. Baby is brought to her | HAWLEY: In India the surrogacy industry is worth more than five hundred million dollars a year. Critics say that it’s being used for child trafficking. It’s also been dogged by claims of exploitation of surrogates, and a serious lack of regulation and transparency. | 03:21 |
| Delhi street | Sources have told Foreign Correspondent, this case of the boy left behind, has been mishandled by successive Australian governments. | 03:45 |
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| ARUN DOHLE: “His rights have been brutally violated right from the beginning. He doesn’t know his identity”. | 03:57 |
| Delhi street GVs | Music | 04:04 |
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| HAWLEY: The case has attracted international attention from organisations concerned with child trafficking. | 04:08 |
| Anjali and Arun into tuktuk | Anjali Pawar and Arun Dohle are on a mission. They’re here to help Foreign Correspondent piece together what happened to the boy. | 04:13 |
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| Music | 04:27 |
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| HAWLEY: For Arun, this is a very personal quest. | 04:32 |
| Photos. Arun as child with adoptive parents | ARUN DOHLE: [Against Child Trafficking] “I grew up in a white family and I don’t belong there. It’s a very deep question of belonging and that creates not necessarily confusion, it creates a friction | 04:36 |
| Arun. Super: | within yourself and all adoptees, sooner or later, start searching for their roots”. | 04:46 |
| Tuktuk in traffic. Anjali and Arun get out | HAWLEY: Arun spent nearly a decade searching for his birth mother in India. On that journey he met Anjali who helped him find her. Through their connection, they now help others find their families. ANJALI PAWAR: [Against Child Trafficking] “I never understood the people from Australia, | 04:55 |
| Anjali. Super: | how they can abandon, and the excuse that they gave is they can’t afford it. It was bullshit”. | 05:16 |
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| Arun, Anjali and Hawley around table looking at documents | HAWLEY: Before we head out on our search, we pour over heavily redacted Australian freedom of information documents obtained by Foreign Correspondent. As luck would have it, they contain the birth date of the twins – the 27th of November, 2012. This increases our chances of finding the official adoption papers for the boy. | 05:26 |
| Arun | ARUN PAWAR: “If we have a birth date we can start searching the registries, birth registries and from there we could hopefully trace the adoptive family – so called adoptive family”. | 05:49 |
| Firecrackers going off in street/Anjali and Arun | HAWLEY: With the twins’ birth date in hand, Anjali and Arun begin the search. As the summer pushes up towards 48 degrees, they weave their way through the labyrinth of India’s bureaucracy, attempting to find the twins’ birth certificates. In India it seems there’s always something to celebrate. | 05:59 |
| Anjali and Arun with Hawley on street | For Anjali and Arun, it’s the discovery of the birth certificates that brings us one step closer to finding the missing boy. | 06:25 |
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| ANJALI PAWAR: “We know the name of both the children, the boy and girl. We know the parents’ name and we know the birth dates, exactly where this child was born and as well as we got the permanent address of these parents who are living in Australia as well as where they stayed in India”. HAWLEY: But importantly, we now know that the name of the boy when he was born was Dev. | 06:33 |
| Traffic | ARUN DOHLE: “I don’t know where the boy is. | 06:57 |
| Arun and Anjali walk on street | We can speculate from whether he was born disabled to whether | 07:01 |
| Arun | he has been placed in a very rich, well to do family where he gets every amenity. So we don’t know”. | 07:06 |
| Australian High Commission signage and exterior | Music | 07:14 |
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| HAWLEY: What we do know is that nine days after the birth of the twins, the Australian parents made a series of | 07:19 |
| Super: Reconstruction | anxious phone calls to the Australian High Commission. They revealed their plans to leave Dev in India, saying they couldn’t afford to support both him and his sister and that they already had a boy and wanted a girl to complete their family. | 07:25 |
| Reconstruction continues. | Music | 07:46 |
| Parents meet with High Commission staff. GFX overlay of Commission memos | HAWLEY: On December 12 the couple arrived at the High Commission for a formal meeting. They told officials they wanted to give the boy to Indian friends who were unable to conceive a child, but a memo from the High Commission in early 2013 suggests they misled consular staff, that in fact the proposed adoptive parents were not close family friends but were known through a mutual friend. So the family adopting the boy were not friends at all. | 07:49 |
| Ext. High Commission/Convention centre | The story rattled and upset Australian High Commission staff dealing with the case, so much so they approached the Chief Justice of Australia’s Family Court who was attending a legal conference here at this Delhi convention centre. Traumatised and seeking her counsel, | 08:21 |
| Hawley to camera | they told her that money had changed hands between the Australians and the couple that had taken the baby boy. The Chief Justice says if that’s true, it amounts to child trafficking. | 08:38 |
| Bryant. Super: | CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “When I asked what had happened to the other child, they said well someone in the end had come forward and said that they were known to the family and would take the child, but they expressed to me their great concern that in fact money had changed hands and if that’s true then that’s basically trafficking children”. | 08:51 |
| Reconstruction of meeting | Music | 09:11 |
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| HAWLEY: Diana Bryant says the High Commission officer told her she tried to convince the Australian couple to change their minds, to bring both babies back to Australia. CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “They were required of course to provide the documentation – travel documentation for the one child and the other child was left there and I found that a fairly shocking story”. | 09:15 |
| Baby. GFX overlay of documents | Music | 09:36 |
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| HAWLEY: And of even more concern, these freedom of information documents reveal the couple were warned by High Commission officials that the baby boy could be left stateless. | 09:39 |
| Meeting reconstruction | But as High Commission staff tried to delay the Australian parents’ departure from India, word came from Canberra, approving Australian citizenship and one passport for one child only – the baby girl. | 09:50 |
| Bryant | CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “There was definitely some pressure being placed to expedite the process to ensure that they could return with the child”. HAWLEY: “And you believe that came from Australia?” CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “Well I was told it did”. | 10:06 |
| Naphade greets Hawley | HAWLEY: Shekhar Naphade, a senior lawyer at New Delhi’s Supreme Court, believes this could constitute a case of child abandonment. “And what’s your view about the fact that the Australian Government or government officials | 10:15 |
| Naphade interview | knew that this Australian couple left behind one of their children born via a surrogate?” | 10:32 |
| Super: | SHEKHAR NAPHADE, SC: “If the Australian High Commission officials had information about the child being that of the Australian couple, then I’m afraid what they have done is improper. I would describe it as aiding and abetting... the Australian couple in abandoning the other child”. HAWLEY: “Aiding and abetting?” SHEKHAR NAPHADE: “Yes”. | 10:40 |
| Anjali and Arun visiting registries | Music | 11:08 |
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| HAWLEY: “For the next 24 hours through the maze of digital registries and dusty records around New Delhi, Anjali and Arun keep searching for the registered adoption papers. | 11:12 |
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| It’s a daunting task, but there is a glimmer of hope. Anjali and Arun have been meeting a well-connected contact and they’ve come away with two new clues to follow. | 11:27 |
| Anjali and Arun on street with Hawley | “Tell me, what have you learnt?” ANJALI PAWAR: “We had a nice discussion about the whole issue, she understands the issue. And we got the surrogate mother’s details as well as the IVF clinic’s details”. | 11:41 |
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| Hawley and Anjali in tuktuk to Kapasera | HAWLEY: Now we head to Kapasera, one of New Delhi’s large low income districts where the surrogate mother lived in 2012. Her name, we’ve discovered, is Vimlesh Devi. If we can find her, just maybe she can shed some light on the story. | 12:05 |
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| Surrogates often come from poor families and are paid around six thousand Australian dollars, equivalent of about three year’s wages. | 12:26 |
| Man with map | A local businessman agrees to help. ANJALI PAWAR: [looking at map with man] “And that’s the highway we came from?” | 12:37 |
| Arun and Anjali walk street | HAWLEY: Arun and Anjali search door to door in the searing heat. | 12:46 |
| Anjali with women on street | ANJALI PAWAR: “We are searching for someone, so we are making enquiries. Where is this day care centre exactly?” INDIAN WOMAN: “”The day care centre is at the next crossing”. | 12:51 |
| Anjali with children on street | ANJALI PAWAR: [to a group of children] “And do you know a lady by the name of Vimlesh in this area? | 13:02 |
| Anjali door knocks | I’m looking for someone around here. I’ve been told lane number 11 and house number 2011. Chote Singhii is his name and his wife’s name is Vimlesh Devi. Do you know anyone in this area by that name?” WOMEN AT DOOR: “No”. | 13:07 |
| Arun and Anjali walk street | HAWLEY: But the surrogate can’t be found, so we pursue another lead. | 13:23 |
| Street vendors outside clinic in Bengali Market | The second clue provided by the source is the IVF clinic engaged by the Australian couple. | 13:34 |
| Inside clinic | It’s Delhi IVF in Bengali Market. | 13:44 |
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| Dr Anoop Gupta operates this IVF clinic. We believe that it was here that the twins’ embryos were implanted into the surrogate mother. | 13:54 |
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| In 2013 this clinic was raided and closed amid allegations of gender selection, a practice that is illegal in India. It was later reopened. We’re told Dr Gupta is out of town. We have another appointment to return for an on camera interview with him the following day. | 14:10 |
| Hawley to camera the following day outside Gupta’s office | “So I’ve just been in there with the doctor of the Australians and he had promised that he would do an interview with us and he’s now reneged on that. He’s told me some things about the Australian couple, including that they knew they were having twins from six weeks, that they decided once the twins were born to leave one of the twins and obviously…we’re being pushed away now again… [to cameraman] keep rolling. Keep rolling. [walking out of clinic to woman] It doesn’t look nice, no it’s not a nice case is it? It’s not a nice case. A child’s been left behind, it’s not a nice case”. INDIAN WOMAN FROM GUPTA’S OFFICE: “It’s not. It’s your government’s decision. Ma’am, sir you want me to take an action against you? I know my rights!” | 14:32 |
| Street shots | Music | 15:23 |
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| HAWLEY: It seems we’ve hit a dead end. No one wants to talk about the baby left behind so we follow our last lead. | 15:29 |
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| Music | 15:37 |
| Hawley in car | HAWLEY: When you commission a birth via a surrogate you have to declare your address in India on the birth certificate, we track down that location. | 15:41 |
| Hawley visits apartment | This is the apartment where the Australian couple stayed when they came to take their baby home. | 15:51 |
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| “Hello, hi. My name’s Samantha Hawley. I’m from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I’ve just come here, we’re just looking for a baby boy that was left behind here in India by some Australians - an Australian couple or a couple that came from Sydney. I’m just wondering... do you know what I’m talking about?” INDIAN WOMAN: “Let me have a chat on the phone and then I’ll let you know. Just wait for a while”. HAWLEY: “Okay, thank you very much”. | 15:59 |
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| We learn this is where the Australian man’s sister lives with her husband and three children. | 16:26 |
| Man, ABC Producer and Hawley | He explains the situation to the ABC’s local producer. | 16:33 |
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| ABC LOCAL PRODUCER: [interpreting for the man] “So he has been adopted out to an acquaintance that the family knows. Within the relatives, like outside, distant relatives. Very rich family, well to do family. It’s in Rohini Pitampura side which is West Delhi and all the legalities were performed according to the Indian laws. HAWLEY: “And was the boy healthy?” MAN: “Yes”. |
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| HAWLEY: “So why did they leave the boy? Why did they leave the boy?” | 17:06 |
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| MAN: “It was only their personal decision. Husband and wife only, no one else consulted – whether they wanted to keep him or not. The simple reason as I know, is they can’t afford three children. Living in India and living in Australia very difficult... different situations”. HAWLEY: “So they won’t listen to you, you did try to convince them against...”. | 17:12 |
| Aunt. Super: | TWINS’ AUNT: “I did, but they had their own you know, choices.” HAWLEY: “Did they give the money…” | 17:36 |
| Man with Hawley and producer | MAN: “Not at all. We are good people. We are well to do, we have everything”. HAWLEY: “Yes I understand but did the, did the commissioning… did the…” MAN: “No not at all”. HAWLEY: “No money?” MAN: “Not, not even a single penny involved”. | 17:42 |
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| HAWLEY: “There is concern about the boy, that was all, and we just want to check the boy”. MAN: “He’s very well, I think he’s very well. His upbringing will be very good. Whatever his father does in Australia it would be even better than that. If that’s your only concern, I’d suggest you stop this matter now. Don’t go on about it, I can only request. Otherwise, it’s your wish”. | 17:54 |
| Hawley on phone. Through window | Music | 18:19 |
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| HAWLEY: We have not been able to find the registered adoption deeds but the Australian Government says the adoption is legal. | 18:23 |
| GFX Overlay. Birth record. Graphic of couple | Now with all other avenues exhausted, the only way left to find the boy Dev is to call the Australians named in the birth records. The family that couldn’t afford to support baby Dev live in Sydney’s north west. The father is a corporate accountant. His wife until recently ran a family day care centre from home. Indian born, they’re now Australian citizens. They have a son and a little daughter, Dev’s twin sister. We’ve chosen not to name them. | 18:29 |
| Hawley on phone to adoptive parents | From New Delhi we call the family home in Australia. | 19:07 |
| Phone. Super: | VOICE OF MOTHER: “We are very normal people so this is.... we never thought we would do something wrong but this is not a normal thing for us”. | 19:14 |
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| HAWLEY: “Now let me just say, there is great concern for the welfare of the child. There are allegations that you broke the law in two countries – in Australia and India. I’m offering you a right of reply”. | 19:22 |
| Super: | VOICE OF FATHER: “We don’t want that right. I am please humbly telling you again and again Samantha, Australian Government has all the information… HAWLEY: “All right”. | 19:34 |
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| VOICE OF FATHER: “Why do you want to make it public?” HAWLEY: “I’m sorry the matter’s already…” VOICE OF FATHER: “We have not done any offence. We have not done any offence. We have done everything legal. Please do not chase us. Please leave us alone”. | 19:41 |
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| Couple walk up stairs | HAWLEY: Foreign Correspondent gave the couple a second opportunity to speak on camera but they didn’t reply. | 19:56 |
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| But this case is disturbing on a number of fronts. It’s illegal in New South Wales to have a baby via international surrogacy, but immigration authorities routinely ignore the state laws by allowing Australian couples to bring home babies born by surrogacy. | 20:09 |
| Pascoe. Super: | CHIEF JUDGE JOHN PASCOE: “If those couple... that couple, for example were from a state like New South Wales then they’ve clearly broken the law, and I would imagine there’d be a number of reasons why the police should be involved and obviously the welfare authorities as well. I would have thought also that Australia has some obligation to track down and look after the welfare of the child that has been left behind”. | 20:27 |
| Babies at clinic | HAWLEY: Judge John Pascoe says while there are couples from Australia who are desperate for children, it doesn’t mean the surrogacy industry can continue to act with impunity. CHIEF JUDGE JOHN PASCOE: “It really is a bit like the wild west and again, part of the problem is that genuine decent people | 20:59 |
| Pascoe | get tarred with the same brush as people who are going into surrogacy arrangements and would not be seen as proper parents for a child”. | 21:20 |
| Naphade interview | HAWLEY: Shekhar Naphade wants the couple to be charged with child abandonment in India. | 21:30 |
| Super: | SHEKHAR NAPHADE: “It’s an offence in India. It’s punishable up to seven years imprisonment and I don’t know whether the government of India proposes to institute extradition proceedings in Australia to have that couple extradited to India to meet this charge. There is a treaty between India and Australia about extradition and it, in my view, the offence clearly falls within the purview of that treaty”. | 21:39 |
| Julie Bishop. Super: | JULIE BISHOP: [Foreign Minister, recorded in April 2015] And at the end of the day, this is a matter for the individuals to make themselves aware of the laws of our country and the laws of the country in which they hope to seek some sort of surrogacy arrangement”. | 22:10 |
| Bishop at meeting | HAWLEY: The ABC approached Australian’s Foreign Minister about the case on a trip to India. Julie Bishop says baby Dev was adopted legally. JULIE BISHOP: “DFAT made what I believe are appropriate inquiries as to the outcome of | 22:21 |
| Bishop. Super: April 2015 | the other child and we were satisfied that there was a valid adoption in place and therefore under the responsibility of the Indian authorities”. | 22.38 |
| File footage. Julia Gillard and Bob Carr at press conference | HAWLEY: But she does point the finger at the previous Labor Government which was in power at that time in 2012. | 22:47 |
| Bishop | JULIE BISHOP: “These are matters that occurred under the previous government and questions about who knew what when should be directed to the relevant foreign minister and Prime Minister Gillard I believe it was and I believe it was Foreign Minister Carr, because they were obviously the relevant ministers at the time. But I’m satisfied that the Department of Foreign Affairs officials acted appropriately”. | 22:56 |
| File footage. Julia Gillard and Bob Carr at press conference | HAWLEY: Bob Carr denies knowing anything about the case. | 23:17 |
| Photos. Bob Carr. Super: | BOB CARR: [October 2014] “I don’t recall surrogacy coming up in terms of our relationship, the bilateral relationship between Australia and India and I did not contact the Australian High Commission about a case”. | 23:23 |
| File footage. Julia Gillard and Bob Carr | HAWLEY: Freedom of information documents reveal the Prime Minister’s office was consulted about baby Dev’s case but the former Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she was not personally advised about it. | 23:36 |
| Bishop | JULIE BISHOP: “Well I haven’t gone back to circumstances before I became the foreign minister because I don’t have access to the records and files prior to becoming foreign minister. They are records and files under a previous government and that’s why I’ve suggested that Prime Minister Gillard and Foreign Minister Carr would be best placed to answer questions”. | 23:51 |
| Mosque | [call to prayer] | 24:13 |
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| HAWLEY: In 2012 when Baby Dev was born, more than 500 couples returned from India with babies born out of surrogacy. Both the Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court and the Chief Justice of the Family Court, say the only way to fix the lack of transparency in the international surrogacy business is to have a national inquiry. CHIEF JUSTICE DIANA BRYANT: “I think an inquiry’s the first step. I think there are a number of | 24:19 |
| Bryant interview | different things that we could do. I’ve suggested that legalising commercial surrogacy in Australia is one of them, but there are other things that could be done as well. I know not everybody supports that, but an inquiry enables all the views to be put forward and discussed”. | 24:45 |
| Pascoe interview | CHIEF JUDGE JOHN PASCOE: “I think an inquiry is desperately needed. I think in that way we can protect the best interests of people who would be very good parents, we can protect the best interests of the birth mother, and most importantly we can protect the best interests of the child”. | 25:02 |
| GVs Delhi streets | Music | 25:22 |
| Hawley to camera | HAWLEY: After 11 days on the ground in New Delhi, we learnt where the twins were born and the name of their surrogate mother. We spoke to the Australians’ lawyer and their doctor and members of their family and we rang the Australians directly, but still we couldn’t find the boy left behind. | 25:32 |
| Anjali and Arun walk | However Anjali and Arun say they’re determined to keep looking. Dev would now be a two and a half year old toddler. The pair will also be lodging an official complaint with the Indian police. | 25:51 |
| Arun interview | ARUN DOHLE: “Even if we find the adoption deed or they can produce the adoption deed which they have done later, they have abandoned the child in the first place. I mean you cannot just commission two children and, you know, leave one behind”. | 26:07 |
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| ANJALI PAWAR: “I feel really bad about that child | 26:26 |
| Anjali | and angry at the authorities, the Australian authorities and the parents, the way they treated that child as a commodity”. | 26:27 |
| Anjali and Arun walking on street | Music | 26:36 |
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| Reporter: Samantha Hawley Cameras: Aaron Hollett, Mark Gould Editor: Garth Thomas Research: Simi Chakrabarti, Aarti Betigeri, Nina Teggarty Graphics: Betsy Baker FOI Editor: Michael McKinnon Producers: Suzanne Smith, Mark Gould, Aarti Betigeri , Simi Chakrabarti Associate producer: Michael Doyle Executive producer: Marianne Leitch | 26:49 |
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