Tag: Hobart City Council
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Transgender Flags Flown at Hobart Town Hall during “Gender Identity in Law” Forum
During the Coalition for Biological Reality Forum “Gender Identity in Law” at Hobart Town Hall on 26 February 2022, transgender flags were flown from the building. The display raised immediate questions in Council meetings about who had authorised the decision. Despite repeated questions to the Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds and the CEO Kelly Grigsby, full…
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Bias Against Gender-Critical Women in Hobart City Council
Women Speak Tasmania, along with other gender-critical community members, has repeatedly faced hostility and bias within Hobart City Council. In 2019, Hobart City Councillor Holly Ewin used her Facebook page to describe members of Women Speak Tasmania as “Nazis,” “white supremacists,” and “TERFs.” These serious allegations were made without evidence and in clear breach of…
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RTI Documents Reveal Campaign Fails to Cancel Public Forum
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…
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Hobart Councillor Jax Ewin Fails to Cancel Public Forum
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:…
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Women’s group raises questions about councillor’s apology
A women’s rights group is continuing to put political pressure on a Hobart City councillor, questioning the sincerity of a recent apology to other elected members. At a council meeting on February 11, Councillor Holly Ewin gave a public apology after being directed to do so by a code of conduct panel. The apology to…
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The Story of Hobart’s Gender-Inclusive Toilet Posters
In 2019, Hobart City Council debated whether to display posters in public toilets supporting trans and gender-diverse people. The initiative was introduced by Councillor Holly Ewin in May 2019. Cr Ewin argued that displaying posters would show solidarity with Hobart’s queer community at a time of heightened debate over gender, birth certificates, and marriage law…
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Councillor Holly Ewin Encouraging ‘Noisy’ Protest Outside HCC Meeting
This evening, Hobart City Council will meet to discuss, among other things, the following motion – That: 1. Trans and Gender diverse posters not be displayed on a permanent basis, however be included on an annual program of display in the City’s public toilets. 2. The development and design of the posters to be in…
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Regarding Biological Essentialism – Letter to Cr Holly Ewin
Dear Councillor Ewin, I am writing to you in reference to the Mercury article ‘Women’s War of Words’ published Friday 31stMay, 2019 in which you refer to the group Women Speak Tasmania as ascribing to ‘biological essentialism’. I presume that you made this comment on the basis of the group’s definition of what makes someone…
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Women’s War of Words
A CODE of conduct complaint is expected to be filed against a new Hobart City councillor over posts on social media. Women’s rights group Women Speak Tasmania say they will lodge a complaint against Cr Holly Ewin with Hobart City Council general manager Nick Heath in the “foreseeable future”. The group has alleged Cr Ewin…
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Open letter to Hobart City Council Aldermen Holly Ewin
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…