Category: Articles
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Opinion: A reality check on sex work
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By Isla MacGregor Recent articles have argued for and against decriminalization of prostitution. It’s an emotive subject, likely to raise strong commentary, so let’s try and see this argument against some indisputable facts. One: the entire weight of mankind’s experience in all civilised societies round the world has always centred on a stable family (or tribe)…
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Sex offender’s sentence must be appealed
By Isla MacGregor On 23 December we read in the Mercury that Darren John Fenton, 48, received a suspended sentence after being found guilty of the indecent assault of two 13-year old girls on the East Coast last year. The manifestly inadequate sentence, delivered by Justice Helen Wood, is a sorry indictment of the Tasmanian…
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UTAS Women’s Collective: A new meaning for inclusive?
By Isla MacGregor In six decades of life as a woman, I’ve seen countless expressions of patriarchy. From the family favouritism shown to my brothers, to the societal and workplace inequities of single parenthood, and now the creeping social oblivion of female middle age. I’ve studied and worked in the male dominated professions of accounting…
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Amnesty International condemned over fast-tracking of sex laws policy
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By Isla MacGregor Human Rights and Women’s groups along with Survivors have been outraged over the continued attempt by Amnesty International to rail road through their policy on prostitution after being exposed for failing to properly consult with their international membership base and stakeholders. The proposed Amnesty International International Council policy calling for the decriminalisation…