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Tag: Hobart City Council

  • Freedom of choice in the public toilet

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    Hobart will next month consider installing permanent signs in all public lavatories endorsing the right of transgender people to use men’s or women’s toilets. Temporary signs have already been backed by the Hobart City Council, but their implementation has stalled amid attempts to “deplatform” a women’s group from the consultation process. Advocates are pushing ahead…

  • Gender Neutral Toilet Signs – Letter to Cr Ewim

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    Letter from Hobart resident, Anne Warburton, to Holly Ewin, Hobart City Councillor, about Councillor Ewin’s proposed gender neutral toilet signs. We were asked (by the author of the letter) to share it on our page. Dear Cr Ewin, I see you have initiated a project to put up posters welcoming transgender people to council-operated women’s…

  • Women Speak Tasmania Lodges Code of Conduct Complaint Against Hobart Councillor Holly Ewin

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    A CODE of conduct complaint has officially been lodged against a Hobart City councillor — but the elected member said they stood by what they’d done. As first revealed by the Mercury in May, women’s rights group Women Speak Tasmania filed a complaint against Cr Holly Ewin on Monday over comments at a council meeting and posts on…

  • Code of Conduct Complaint against Councillor Holly Ewin

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    On Monday this week, Women Speak Tasmania lodged a Code of Conduct complaint with Hobart City Council against Councillor Holly Ewin. ‘We understand the Hobart City Council Code of Conduct requires Councillors to treat all people with respect, including members of the public and fellow Councillors’, said Women Speak Tasmania spokesperson, Bronwyn Williams. ‘Councillor Ewin…

  • Councillor Holly Ewin Encouraging ‘Noisy’ Protest Outside HCC Meeting

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    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…

  • Regarding Biological Essentialism – Letter to Cr Holly Ewin

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    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…

  • Women’s War of Words

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    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…

  • Open letter to Hobart City Council Aldermen Holly Ewin

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    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…

  • Anger at Hobart City Council Inquiry into ‘Anti-Transgender Material’

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    Hobart City Council has been accused of stifling free speech after launching an investigation into alleged “anti-transgender material” distributed by a feminist group at the city’s famous Salamanca Market. The group, Women Speak Tasmania, yesterday told The Australian the investigation, and a public apology ­issued by the council to those who might have been offended,…