Category: Women’s Rights
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Open Letter to the Australian Human Rights Commission
Is the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting a witch-hunt? We are a group of civil society organisations, health practitioners, researchers, lawyers, writers and individuals, people of faith and atheists, from across the political spectrum. We are writing to express our deep alarm at the Australian Human Rights Commission’s current project aimed at “mapping” alleged threats…
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Open letter to Board of Directors Equality Australia
From: An Alliance of Australian lesbian, women’s and children’s rights organisations Dear Directors of the Board of Equality Australia, We the undersigned represent a broad alliance of lesbian and women’s rights organisations in Australia who have come together to invite Equality Australia to participate in a mediated round table discussion over the substantive issues that…
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Women’s rights groups call on Tasmania government to conduct inquiry
Standing for Women, Tasmania, in collaboration with an alliance of women’s, lesbians’, and children’s human rights groups, has written to the Premier calling on his government to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into events leading up to and on the day of the Let Women Speak event held on Tuesday 21 March 2023, on Parliament House…
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A dark day for women’s free speech and right to lawful and peaceful assembly in Tasmania
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Tasmania Police fail to protect women from violence outside Parliament House in Hobart in March 2023 In Tasmania we like to regard our state as a peaceful and accepting place where our people can safely and freely discuss the important issues of the day. But on Tuesday 21st, March 2023 we found to our dismay…
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Free Speech Alliance Australia
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Freedom of speech for women is under dire threat in Australia. Free Speech Alliance Australia has produced this poster and list of women in Australia from across the political spectrum who have been sacked, banned, no-platformed, expelled, threatened with violence including rape, attacked and/or vilified for speaking out about their views on women’s sex-based rights.…
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Breakfast with Kaz & Tubes – Triple M Hobart
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Yoni & The Steamers Bass player Katie Warren claims a Facebook post caused her to be personally bullied and ultimately caused her band to split. The former Hobart band member says she was blacklisted from local events because she expressed concern on her personal Facebook account about material she deemed inappropriate in a children’s book.
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Robin Banks Attempts to No-Platform Women Speak Tasmania
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Women Speak Tasmania is scheduled to speak at a Human Rights Week event for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) on 12 December next. On 30 November, former Anti-discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, emailed WILPF with the following … Ms Banks’ statements clearly amount to vilification of the Women Speak Tasmania speakers, and…
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Transgender law reform … a women’s rights perspective
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By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania In recent years, ‘gender’ and ‘gender identity’ have become a feature of anti-discrimination law in Australia at both the federal and state levels. Transgender rights proponents are now lobbying for radical changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas) that will enable…
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Is mainstream media in Australia afraid to cover women’s views on the transgender rights debate?
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By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor – Women Speak Tasmania And what about the Mercury? In the last few months Tasmanian Times has published several articles on the transgender rights debate written by women from Women Speak Tasmania. Most of these articles were also sent out nationally as Media Releases. No mainstream media in Australia has…