Women Speak Tasmania

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  • It’s bad news from New Zealand’s Survivors …

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    By Isla MacGregor First published April 27 Survivors from the sex trade in New Zealand are speaking out about the tragic failure of decriminalisation aimed at preventing harms to prostituted women and girls from sex buyers and pimps but here in Tasmania Young Labor and many in the Union movement don’t want to hear their…

  • Thomas Kent and the Sex Party propaganda machine …

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    By Isla MacGregor Thomas Kent, in recent comments on an article in Overland journal Sex work and silence by Celeste Elizabeth, member of the Women’s Legal Service Board and self proclaimed delinquent, has outed himself as the propagandist for the Sex Party in Australia he is. While Sex trade apologists Elizabeth and Kent continue to…

  • Boycotts ramp up on The Body Shop and L’Oreal

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    By Isla MacGregor In the lead up to Christmas cosmetic retailer The Body Shop is coming under increasing pressure from women’s human rights groups with calls for consumers to boycott their products. The Body Shop is one many corporate offenders on the Collective Shout 2016 Crossed Off list an annual blacklist of corporate offenders who…

  • Young Labor Didn’t Do its Homework

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    By Isla MacGregor Tasmanian Labor’s agenda for its conference in Queenstown this weekend has promised an opportunity for ‘robust and spirited debate’. While the decriminalisation of brothels and the legalisation of some illicit drugs are being proposed by two separate branches of the party, the coupling of both proposals is difficult to avoid. A more…

  • The reluctance of Tasmanian authorities …

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    By Isla MacGregor Consultation Session with Michel Forst, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders – Civil Society Activists, Saturday 8 October 2016 Representatives of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) Southern Tasmania, Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) and Whistleblowers Tasmania attended the civil society activists consultation session in Hobart. M. Forst is visiting Australia…

  • Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …

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    By Isla MacGregor Whistleblowers Tasmania has backed the call by Tessa Anne from the Women’s Liberation Front for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the conduct of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks and Equal Opportunity Tasmania Policy Advisor Leica Wagner. The allegations made by Tessa Anne and reported in The Australian on Saturday 1st October are significant…

  • Sex industry lobby group disrupts Survivor book launch

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    By Isla MacGregor On Sunday 21 August, sex trade advocates tried to derail the launch, in Townsville, Queensland, of Prostitution Narratives, a recently published compilation of sex trade survivor testimonies. The tactics used by the pro sex trade lobby are becoming increasingly nasty, especially since the release of damning stories of violence in the Australian sex…

  • Melbourne Writers’ Festival Panel Dispute Exposes Anti-Survivor Agenda

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    By Isla MacGregor In the spirit of the popular ‘sex workers are under-represented’ stance, repeated by liberal media and prostitution advocates, ad-nauseum, Daily Life has published yet another article repeating the myth. The author, Kate Iselin, aside from being a self-described “sex worker” and published writer, is also “furious.” This time, the article targets the…

  • Prostitution – the global humanitarian disaster of the 21C

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    By Isla MacGregor Amnesty International’s Sex Trade Policy – Rights for Whom? Talk by Isla MacGregor Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania Introduction Thank you, Simone, for speaking of the harms of the global sex trade with such clarity. I hope I can add something to the debate by discussing Amnesty International’s recent policy announcement on what…

  • NorMAC Nastiness in Hobart: A response

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    By Isla MacGregor Crikey! The pro-sex trade lobby have been misrepresenting Nordic Model supporters with a renewed vigour. The “Why be poor?” brigade of alleged “sex workers” certainly know how to spin a yarn but it’s the same old yarn and the public are just not swallowing it. After I had a remarkable opportunity to…