Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2016

  • WoLF submission to Equal Opportunity Tasmania (EOT) Option Paper

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    Below is Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) submission paper to Equal Opportunity Tasmania (EOT) Options Paper. Equal Opportunity Tasmania puts forward a proposal that would allow a person who is unambiguously male or female to change the sex marker on their Birth Certificate to indicate a sex that is not truthfully their sex.

  • Boycotts ramp up on The Body Shop and L’Oreal

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    By Isla MacGregor In the lead up to Christmas cosmetic retailer The Body Shop is coming under increasing pressure from women’s human rights groups with calls for consumers to boycott their products. The Body Shop is one many corporate offenders on the Collective Shout 2016 Crossed Off list an annual blacklist of corporate offenders who…

  • Young Labor Didn’t Do its Homework

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    By Isla MacGregor Tasmanian Labor’s agenda for its conference in Queenstown this weekend has promised an opportunity for ‘robust and spirited debate’. While the decriminalisation of brothels and the legalisation of some illicit drugs are being proposed by two separate branches of the party, the coupling of both proposals is difficult to avoid. A more…

  • Trans Activists Trumped By Their Own Flawed Policies

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    On the 20th October, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that student politician and Liberal MP staffer Alex Fitton had identified himself as a woman in order to win an executive position in a student election worth $12,000. A similar situation occurred within the University of Tasmania’s own student union and Women’s Collective in early 2015,…

  • The reluctance of Tasmanian authorities …

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    By Isla MacGregor Consultation Session with Michel Forst, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders – Civil Society Activists, Saturday 8 October 2016 Representatives of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) Southern Tasmania, Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) and Whistleblowers Tasmania attended the civil society activists consultation session in Hobart. M. Forst is visiting Australia…

  • Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner

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    Do you know anyone who is either male or female? I mean, unambiguously male or female? You know – of the male sex, or the female sex? I’m not talking about people with personality traits that are wholly ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’, because no-one is a walking sex stereotype. I’m talking about physical sex. There are…

  • Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …

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    By Isla MacGregor Whistleblowers Tasmania has backed the call by Tessa Anne from the Women’s Liberation Front for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the conduct of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks and Equal Opportunity Tasmania Policy Advisor Leica Wagner. The allegations made by Tessa Anne and reported in The Australian on Saturday 1st October are significant…

  • Anti-discrimination commissioner bullied me: feminist

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    A leading feminist has made official complaints of bullying and sex discrimination against Tasmania’s female Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, who dismisses the claims.  Tessa Anne, an activist with the radical feminist Women’s Liberation Front (WOLF), has lodged complaints with the state’s Attorney-General and Integrity Commission, alleging Ms Banks “bullied, belittled” and discriminated against her.  Ms Banks…

  • Sex industry lobby group disrupts Survivor book launch

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    By Isla MacGregor On Sunday 21 August, sex trade advocates tried to derail the launch, in Townsville, Queensland, of Prostitution Narratives, a recently published compilation of sex trade survivor testimonies. The tactics used by the pro sex trade lobby are becoming increasingly nasty, especially since the release of damning stories of violence in the Australian sex…

  • The threat posed to women’s rights …

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    The Women’s Liberation Front Southern Tasmania (WoLF Tas) has written to Tasmanian and Victorian MP’s warning them about the threat posed to women’s rights if proposed legislative changes tabled yesterday in the Victorian Parliament by Premier Daniel Andrews and also similarly proposed in an Options Paper by the Office of Equal Opportunity Tasmania (EOT), go…