Women Speak Tasmania

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  • Sex, Law, and Safeguarding: Why Tasmania Must Not Erase Women from the Births, Deaths & Marriages Act

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    The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), Southern Tasmania, has provided a detailed response to Equal Opportunity Tasmania’s (EOT) “Options Paper” proposing changes to the Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act 1999 (BDMR Act). Their message is simple: sex matters, and erasing it from law will undermine women’s rights, safeguarding, and service delivery across Tasmania. What’s at…

  • Prostitution – The Global Humanitarian Disaster of the 21C

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    At a public event held at Parliament House in Hobart, Tasmanian advocate Isla MacGregor delivered a lecture examining Amnesty International’s 2016 policy supporting the full decriminalisation of the sex trade. Speaking alongside survivor advocate Simone Watson of the Nordic Model Australia Coalition, MacGregor questioned whether Amnesty’s approach prioritised the rights of those selling sex or…