Category: Women’s Safe Spaces
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From Sex-Segregated Spaces to All-Gender Design: Reflections from The Hub
On 29 May 2026, representatives from Women Speak Tasmania attended the Northern Suburbs Community Recreation Hub in Mowbray following an invitation from the Tasmanian Department of State Growth to inspect the facility’s all-gender amenities and discuss the design philosophy underpinning the project. As previously outlined in correspondence from Minister for Sport Nick Duigan, the Hub’s…
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Remembering Why Women Fought for Spaces of Their Own
Recently, members of Women Speak Tasmania visited the electorate office of Nick Duigan in Invermay, Launceston. We presented a copy of A Loo of One’s Own by Eleri Harris to the Minister for Sport. At first glance, this colourful children’s picture book appears playful and light-hearted, filled with quirky illustrations and gentle humour. Yet it…
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The Northern Hub, Parliament Hypocrisy, and the Real Cost of “Inclusion”
At Women Speak Tasmania, we have spent years fighting to protect women’s hard-won single-sex spaces. The evidence is clear, the data is consistent, and the lived reality for girls and women is being ignored in the rush toward “inclusion.” The Performative Hypocrisy of Politicians On 30 November 2025, Labor MP Ella Haddad proudly posted about…
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Defending Women’s Privacy and Safety: WST’s Submission to the National Construction Code Consultation
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) responded to the Australian Building Codes Board’s (ABCB) public consultation on proposed changes to the National Construction Code (NCC)—specifically, the introduction of “all-gender” sanitary facilities and shifts in terminology from “sex” to “gender.” Our submission highlighted critical concerns about the repercussions of these changes on the safety, privacy, and dignity of…
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Protest and Boycott Call Over Girl Guides Australia’s Trans Inclusion Policy
On October 11, 2018, Women Speak Tasmania held a street protest calling for a boycott of Girl Guides Australia (GGA). The protest coincided with International Day of the Girl Child and raised concerns about the organisation’s policy change allowing male-bodied people who identify as female to join as members and leaders. WST argued that this…