Privately Practising Midwives (PPMs) are currently required to obtain a referral from a GP, health service or Obstetrician in order to provide Medicare rebatable antenatal and postnatal care to women. Unfortunately, this collaboration is often one-way, whereby the GP/OB is required to provide referral but doesn’t necessarily follow up or form a relationship with the midwife they have referred to. Around Australia, women are continuously being refused referrals to a Privately Practising Midwife (PPM) by their General Practitioner (GP), sometimes with the reason given being that their practice policy dictates they are unable to refer. This is despite their right to informed, woman-centred antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. Given the knowledge that midwifery-led continuity of care improves outcomes for both mothers and babies (Sandall et al., 2016), and that birth at home leads to no differences in maternal or neonatal mortality yet significantly better maternal morbidity (Homer et al., 2019; Hutton et al., 2019; Scarf et al., 2018; Davies-Tuck, 2018), care with a PPM should not only be a valid option in Australia but should also be supported by our other healthcare providers.Australia’s PPMs are some of the most qualified pregnancy, birth and postpartum specialists available, having undertaken a Bachelor’s degree, having had to practice a minimum of 3 years within the hospital system and undertaking continual professional development activities in order to register and go into private practice, as well as being regularly audited while practicing. To suggest that a GP who has minimal antenatal, birth and postnatal experience should have to refer to a specialist is insulting to the midwifery profession as a whole. Furthermore, we have observed that when GPs do refuse referral to the women they are caring for these women either go elsewhere for referral, reducing the continuity of care they would usually have with their chosen GP, are out of pocket for expenses incurred without Medicare rebate, or choose to go through their pregnancy alone, without any medical care; all of these options reduce the safety for women and babies.