Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: 2019

  • Transforming Tasmania Cries Foul over Poll Results

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    The EMRS poll results released yesterday indicate the majority of Tasmanians do not support changes to the state’s birth registration process proposed by Labor and the Greens. The changes were passed as amendments to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018 by our parliament’s Lower House in November last year.  In March they…

  • Salamanca Market’s Attempt to Silence Women’s Voices

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    On Saturday, 9 February 2019, Women Speak Tasmania (WST) held a media conference at Salamanca, just outside the market precinct, to launch our flyer outlining the impacts of proposed transgender law reforms on women’s human rights. Following the conference, volunteers handed out flyers inside Salamanca Market, speaking directly with the public. The response was mixed—many…

  • Open letter to Hobart City Council Aldermen Holly Ewin

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    Women Speak Tasmania is writing to you regarding the Salamanca Market Facebook posting on Sunday 10 February which stated, among other things, that … ‘The City of Hobart have been made aware of a group that were distributing anti-transgender materials yesterday at the Salamanca Market.’ We reject as false the characterisation of our pamphlet as…

  • Anger at Hobart City Council Inquiry into ‘Anti-Transgender Material’

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    Hobart City Council has been accused of stifling free speech after launching an investigation into alleged “anti-transgender material” distributed by a feminist group at the city’s famous Salamanca Market. The group, Women Speak Tasmania, yesterday told The Australian the investigation, and a public apology ­issued by the council to those who might have been offended,…

  • Salamanca Market’s Attack on Women’s Freedom of Speech

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    Last Saturday Women Speak Tasmania held a media conference at Salamanca (outside the market precinct) to launch our flyer outlining our views on proposed transgender law reforms and their effects on women’s human rights.   The flyers were also distributed at Salamanca Market that day. Our flyers received both positive and not so positive responses but…

  • Investigation into Former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks

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    Women Speak Tasmania is disappointed that Anti-discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt has referred our complaint against former Anti-discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks to the Ombudsman for investigation. We submitted our complaint against Robin Banks when our organisation was no-platformed last year at a public forum in Human Rights Week organised by the Women’s International League for Peace…

  • Cassy O’Connor and Rebecca White must Explain How Sex Self-ID will Impact Women’s Human Rights?

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    Campaign group Women Speak Tasmania is calling on Greens’ leader Cassy O’Connor and Opposition leader Rebecca White to clarify how sex self-ID will impact the human rights of women and girls. Labor and the Greens bulldozed amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, and the Anti-discrimination Act, through the Tasmanian Lower House last…