Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: free speech

  • Forum: Conversion laws: risks and harms?

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    Free Speech Alliance Australia Forum at Parliament House Hobart Date: 23 November 2022  Time: 6-8.30 The Free Speech Alliance Australia would like to give a warm welcome tonight for everyone attending our first forum, Conversion laws:  risks and harms?  We welcome our guests who will shortly be speaking to you and we would like to…

  • An invitation to the Forum: Conversion Therapy Laws – risks and harms?

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    Dear Member of the Tasmanian Parliament, I am writing to invite you to attend a forum on the contentious changes to Tasmanian law being proposed by the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute on the issue of so-called ‘conversion therapy’. The forum will offer testimony from those who have been negatively impacted by similar laws along with…

  • Gender-critical Tasmanian women are given permission to speak

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    A council meeting in Hobart has received some press attention for a motion brought by Councillor Jax Fox. The meeting itself is a perfect study in the way local councils, whose traditional business is rates and rubbish, are being corrupted in the name of social justice activism. Jax Fox was elected to Hobart City Council with just…

  • Attack on freedom of speech

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    Two feminists have accused a former anti-discrimination commissioner of trying to stop them from speaking at a human rights forum because of their opposition to transgender reforms. Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor were invited by the Tasmanian branch of the global Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to give a speech at an event…

  • Van Badham’s freedom of speech for some?

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    Recent twitter comments on 6th April from Guardian Australia columnist Van Badham in support of the sex trade’s campaign to derail the World’s Oldest Oppression conference being held at RMIT this weekend, have many people questioning if Van Badham has any genuine commitment to freedom of speech or not. Van Badham has joined a twitter…

  • Germaine Greer and the scourge of ‘no-platforming’

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    The “no-platforming” campaign against Germaine Greer reflects a deeper sickness afflicting Western universities. While the stated aim is to reduce harm, the end result is enforced ignorance, writes Claire Lehmann. Australian intellectual Germaine Greer is the latest person to fall victim to the “no-platform” movement. It is a movement plaguing Western universities, where students seek…

  • Scarlett Alliance Fails in Bid to Gag Professor

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    Preamble by Isla MacGregor While Women Speak Tasmania only officially started in 2018, members previously had primarily worked on issues concerning sexual exploitation and the global sex trade with the Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NORMAC). In June 2012 Prof Sheila Jeffreys came to Hobart to lobby Ministers and give public talks.  Former Scarlet Alliance member Jade…