Tag: 2025
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Concerns Regarding Tasmanian Government’s Recent Decision to Ban Women Speak Tasmania from using Public Libraries – Letter to Tasmanian Attorney General
Dear Attorney General, I’m writing to you about the Tasmanian Government’s recent decision to ban Women Speak Tasmania from using public libraries. According to an article in The Australian the women’s rights group has been blocked multiple times from booking meeting rooms because their discussions about gender policies in schools supposedly breach Diversity and Inclusion…
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Concern Regarding the Exclusion of Women Speak Tasmania from Public Library Facilities – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney-General, I am writing to express my concern about the recent decision to prevent Women Speak Tasmania from holding a meeting in a Tasmanian public library. This group represents women peacefully advocating for the protection and restoration of sex-based rights. Many Australian women are deeply concerned that gender self-identification laws have eroded important rights relating to…
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199 Days Later March — Women Demand Action on Supreme Court Ruling
On 1 November 2025, Women’s-rights activists marched through central London calling for the UK Government to immediately apply the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming that “woman,” “man,” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex at birth. A poster by the organisers, @acts_grassroots, stated: “The Supreme Court ruling should be implemented in…
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Institutional Capitulation: How a Melbourne Council Cancelled Helen Joyce
The City of Melbourne’s cancellation of a women’s rights forum featuring Helen Joyce stands as a stark warning about the fragility of free speech in Australia. What was intended to be a private, ticketed discussion on the impacts of gender identity ideology on women and children instead became a textbook case of institutional capitulation to…
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Women’s group banned from Tasmanian libraries for ‘hate speech’
A prominent women’s rights group has been permanently banned from public libraries in Tasmania after its forums opposing radical trans ideology were deemed to be in breach of Libraries Tasmania’s diversity and inclusion policies. Attempts by Women Speak Tasmania to hire library venues have been repeatedly turned down, most recently this week after a bid…
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Dr Russell from Equality Tasmania Is Pushing Harmful Myths
It is not a “harmful myth,” Dr Russell, that Tasmanian children are being taught that boys can have a vagina, girls can have a penis, and that a person can “feel like a boy inside” even if they were assigned female at birth. This wording is taken directly from Tasmanian Government policy and from materials…
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Analysis of “Fix the System not Me!” Evaluating the Impact of Working It Out’s Programs in Tasmanian Schools
On the Working It Out website, we found a report titled “Fix the System, Not Me!” – Evaluating the Impact of Working It Out’s Programs in Tasmanian Schools, developed in collaboration with the University of Tasmania. Curious about its contents, we undertook a detailed review. At first reading, the document appears highly one-sided, presenting the…
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Request for Intervention in the Implementation of New Libraries Tasmania Guidelines – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney General Guy Barnett, Re: Request for Intervention in the Implementation of New Libraries Tasmania Guidelines I’m writing to raise serious concerns regarding freedom of speech and political belief in the application of new Libraries Tasmania venue guidelines. Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has recently been informed that Libraries Tasmania is now vetting community organisations…
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Parents are the First Line of Defence in Safeguarding Children
Parents are not bystanders in child protection — they are the first line of defence against harm. The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, endorsed by all Australian governments, make this clear: families hold the primary responsibility for their children’s safety, wellbeing, and moral development. A genuine child-safe culture requires more than policies on paper.…