Tag: Anti-Discrimination Act Tas
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Protecting Single-Sex Services for Female Survivors – Email to Meg Webb
Email sent to Independent MLC for Nelson, Meg Webb, on 20.04.26 Subject: Thank You for Speaking at the No More Violence Rally – Protecting Single-Sex Services for Female Survivors Dear Ms Webb, I write on behalf of Women Speak Tasmania to thank you for addressing the “No More Violence Rally” on Parliament Lawns yesterday, Sunday…
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Calls for Legal Protection of Sex After “No More Violence Rally”
Women Speak Tasmania applauds the more than 100 Tasmanians who gathered yesterday at the “No More Violence Rally” on Parliament Lawns. Organised by What Were You Wearing Australia, the rally demanded stronger action and funding to end men’s violence against women and children ahead of the May State Budget. Tasmania’s chronically low funding for sex-based…
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Analysis of The Australia Human Rights Commission’s Equal Identities Report
Women Speak Tasmania has carefully reviewed the Australian Human Rights Commission’s March 2026 report, Equal Identities – A human rights review of the experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia. While the report claims to advance human rights, its 19 recommendations would seriously undermine the sex-based rights of women and girls in Australia…
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Campaign Launch: Restoring Sex-Based Protections for Tasmanian Women and Girls
Women Speak Tasmania has officially launched our campaign to restore clear, sex-based protections for women and girls in Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. Currently, the Act protects “gender” and “gender identity” — but does not include a clear, standalone protection for biological sex (male and female). This creates legal uncertainty and risks undermining the spaces, services,…
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Women Speak Tasmania met with Carlo Di Falco MP on Restoring Sex-Based Protections in Law
Women Speak Tasmania met with Member for Lyons, Carlo Di Falco, on Wednesday 8 April to discuss urgent reforms to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998, aimed at restoring clear, sex-based protections for women and girls. The meeting follows the organisation’s formal submission to the Attorney-General and growing public support through a statewide petition — “Fix Tasmania’s…
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Equality in Law
Owen Sinclair’s article (19 March 2026) on Daryl Russell’s repeated homophobic abuse in rural Winnaleah — including slurs, property damage, and threats disrupting daily life — is deeply concerning. It highlights the real harm prejudice inflicts on individuals due to their sexual orientation. The Tasmanian Government’s anti-hate laws (passed December 2025) mark positive progress, expanding…
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International Women’s Day 2026: Defending Women’s Sex-Based Rights in Tasmania
This International Women’s Day (8 March 2026), Women Speak Tasmania focused our advocacy on a clear and urgent goal: restoring the recognition of ‘sex’ in Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. Women’s equality in law has always depended on the clear recognition of sex as a protected attribute. Without it, sex-based protections become difficult to enforce in…
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On International Women’s Day, We Call for the Recognition of Sex in the Anti-Discrimination Act
On International Women’s Day, Women Speak Tasmania proudly celebrates women worldwide and here in Tasmania as a distinct sex class—adult human females—whose biological reality has shaped centuries of struggle for rights, safety, and equality. On this day we honour the suffragists who fought for women’s enfranchisement, recognising women as a political and legal class deserving…
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Reforming the Anti-Discrimination Act: Why We Asked the Attorney-General to Add “Sex” to the Law
On 15 December 2025, Women Speak Tasmania met with the Tasmanian Attorney-General, the Hon. Guy Barnett MP, to discuss a matter we believe is fundamental to the safety, dignity and legal recognition of women and girls in this state. At that meeting we formally presented our submission calling for reform of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998…
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Follow-Up Regarding Submission on Anti-Discrimination Act Reform – Letter to the Attorney General
Letter sent to Tasmania AG Guy Barnett on 16 February 2026 Dear Attorney-General Barnett, Re: Thank you for meeting and submission regarding Anti-Discrimination Act reform We write to thank you for meeting with our delegation on 15 December. We appreciate the time you gave to listen to the concerns of Tasmanian citizens, and we commend…