Category: Citizen Action
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No Men in Women’s Prison! – Letter to the Attorney General
Letter sent to Guy Barnett on 16 November 2025 Dear Mr Barnett, Many of us were heartened to read your announcement that in Tasmania, like the Northern Territory, men who claim to be “trans” would not be housed in women’s prisons. “At last, some sanity and decency!” we thought. No woman should be locked in…
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Concern Regarding ABC’s Financial Commitment to ACON and the AWEI Awards – Letter to Media Watch
Letter sent to Media Watch on 08.12.25 Concern Regarding ABC’s Financial Commitment to ACON and the AWEI Awards – Request for Investigation and Disclosure Dear Media Watch Team, I am writing to express my concerns about the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) ongoing alliance and financial commitments to the AIDS Council of New South Wales (ACON), particularly through…
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ABC’s Lies by Omission – Letter to Linton Besser
Dear Linton Besser, Thank you for revisiting the topic of ACON’s stranglehold over the ABC. This is hardly a new topic, given Paul Barry courageously raised it years ago, and it’s ever more concerning that ABC is not taking immediate action to end its relationship with ACON. Despite Hugh Marks’ shambolic attempts to minimise ACON’s…
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Australian Clinicians are Sounding the Alarm – Open Letter to Mark Butler
Recently, Dr Louise Kirby released an Open Letter to Health Minister Mark Butler, raising serious concerns about the direction and integrity of the NHMRC’s guideline process for treating minors with gender dysphoria. Importantly, this letter is formally endorsed by the Australian Medical Professional Society (AMPS) and the Nurses Professional Association of Australia (NPAA)—two organisations representing…
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Why Did the ABC Ignore the FOI Story Involving Dr Anna Cody and UN Rapporteur Reem Alsalem? – Letter to ABC Ombudsman
Excellent complaint to the ABC from Anthony Johnsen over their failure to cover Anna Cody’s covert campaign to block reappointment of Reem Alsalem To the ABC Ombudsman, Recently, The Australian newspaper obtained documents under freedom of information laws in which Dr Anna Cody, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, queried whether influence could be used to block…
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Concerns Regarding Tasmanian Government’s Recent Decision to Ban Women Speak Tasmania from using Public Libraries – Letter to Tasmanian Attorney General
Dear Attorney General, I’m writing to you about the Tasmanian Government’s recent decision to ban Women Speak Tasmania from using public libraries. According to an article in The Australian the women’s rights group has been blocked multiple times from booking meeting rooms because their discussions about gender policies in schools supposedly breach Diversity and Inclusion…
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Concern Regarding the Exclusion of Women Speak Tasmania from Public Library Facilities – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney-General, I am writing to express my concern about the recent decision to prevent Women Speak Tasmania from holding a meeting in a Tasmanian public library. This group represents women peacefully advocating for the protection and restoration of sex-based rights. Many Australian women are deeply concerned that gender self-identification laws have eroded important rights relating to…
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ABC Bias in Terminology Used to Describe the Let Women Speak Rally – Letter to the ABC Ombudsman
Below is an email exchange between Anthony Johnson and the ABC Ombudsman’s office. Anthony contacted us to share his experience of ABC bias, which he thought might be of interest. Anthony wrote: “I have made two complaints to the ABC about the language used to describe the Let Women Speak rally, held in Melbourne 2023.…
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Thank you for agreeing to further consultation with women’s advocacy groups – Letter to Anna Cody
Letter sent to Anna Cody on the 07 October 2025 Dear Commissioner Cody, I watched your address to the National Press Club September 24 with great interest. Your response to the question from Women’s Advocate Megan Poore gave me hope that you will engage in open, earnest consultation with ordinary women, around the removal of…
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Resign as patron of Equality Australia – Letter to Governor General
Dear Governor General I am concerned that you are making an unwise and inappropriate decision by being patron of Equality Australia. Equality Australia is currently interfering in the court case Giggle v Tickle by opposing the Lesbian Action Group’s position re the existence of and the definition of lesbian. Lesbians are same sex attracted females.…