Women Speak Tasmania

Category: Schools

  • Safeguarding Children in Tasmanian Schools: The Urgent Need for Reform

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    Recently members of Women Speak Tasmania wrote a letter to Tasmanian Education Minister, Jo Palmer, to make her aware to the increasing risks posed to children in Tasmanian schools by the teaching and implementation of gender ideology. Recent policies and practices have highlighted serious gaps in both child safety and current anti-discrimination legislation, leaving young…

  • Tasmania’s Department of Education Tells Schools to Ignore Safeguarding Report

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    In July 2023, Tasmanian schools received an important report: Asleep at the Wheel – An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools by Policy Exchange. The report highlighted serious safeguarding failures in UK schools, where contested gender ideology has been allowed to override long-established child protection principles. Safeguarding Children in Schools Australia (SCISA) distributed this…

  • Should Young Children Be Exposed to Gender Ideology in Storybooks?

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    Introducing Teddy is a children’s picture book published in 2016, written by Jessica Walton and illustrated by Dougal MacPherson. It is aimed at very young readers, typically aged 4–8, and is often described as a gentle, affirming story about friendship, identity, and acceptance. The story centres on a teddy bear named Teddy, who belongs to…