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  • Women’s Rights Groups Call on Tasmania Government to Conduct Inquiry – Letter to Premier Rockliff

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    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…

  • A Dark Day for Women’s Free Speech and Right to Lawful and Peaceful Assembly in Tasmania

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    How Tasmania Police fail to protect women from violence outside Parliament House 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 that there is one…

  • Opinion: Freedom of speech sadly absent from rally

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    Laws enacted in Tasmania to promote equality have backfired on all of us, writes Isla MacGregor Last week I attended the Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull Let Women Speak event on the Parliament House lawns in Hobart in the hope of listening to women speak about the impacts of gender identity laws on their basic rights and freedoms.…

  • Poster – Free Speech Alliance Australia

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    Freedom of speech for women is under serious threat in Australia. The Free Speech Alliance Australia has released a poster and a record highlighting women from across the political spectrum who have been silenced or punished simply for expressing their views on sex-based rights. These women have been sacked, banned, no-platformed, expelled, vilified, and subjected…

  • Robin Banks, Women Speak Tasmania and the WILPF Controversy: A Historical Record

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    Introduction In late 2018, Women Speak Tasmania (WST) became involved in a public controversy that raised questions about freedom of expression, political disagreement, and the participation of women in debates surrounding proposed gender law reforms in Tasmania. The dispute began after former Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks contacted the Women’s International League for Peace and…

  • Robust and respectful free debate is vital

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    Cassy O’Connor’s recent call for Premier Jeremy Rockliff to ban the Free Speech Alliance Australia forum at Parliament House on conversion therapy laws is regrettable. Democracy can only flourish when there is informed, robust and respectful free debate. The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute final report on the issue has not received any scrutiny by the…

  • RTI Documents expose Lord Mayor’s abuse of power

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    Documents recently obtained under Right to Information reveal the Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds’ abuse of her powers concerning the raising of the trans flags outside the Town Hall during the Coalition for Biological Reality forum Gender Identity in Law on 26 February, 2022. Spokesperson Isla MacGregor said: ‘Documents reveal that two days before the forum,…

  • WDI Feminist Question Time with Isla MacGregor

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    Women’s Declaration International (WDI) hosts Feminist Question Time, a weekly online webinar attended by a global feminist and activist audience of 200–300 participants. The focus is on how gender ideology is undermining the rights of women and girls. Recordings of past panels are available on WDI’s YouTube channel. This Week’s Speaker: Isla McGregor – Australia…

  • RTI Documents Reveal Campaign Fails to Cancel Public Forum

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    Information obtained under Right to Information from Hobart City Council has exposed the failure of a campaign backed by Cr Jx Ewin to have a public forum cancelled at Hobart Town Hall. The public forum Gender Identity in Law – Impacts on women children and transgender people – Balancing the conversation – originally booked for…

  • Hobart Councillor Jax Ewin Fails to Cancel Public Forum

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    Hobart City Councillor Jax Ewin has failed to persuade Hobart City Council to cancel a public forum, Gender Identity in Law, being held at the Hobart Town Hall on 28 August. Cr Ewin’s latest attempt to prevent people from speaking about the impacts of gender identity laws was publicly shared on Facebook on 12 July:…