Women Speak Tasmania

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  • Salamanca Market’s attack on women’s freedom of speech

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    By Women Speak Tasmania Last Saturday Women Speak Tasmania held a media conference at Salamanca (outside the market precinct) to launch our flyer outlining our views on proposed transgender law reforms and their effects on women’s human rights.   The flyers were also distributed at Salamanca Market that day. Our flyers received both positive and not…

  • Reclaim the Night – Is It Still About Women?

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    By Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor Hobart’s Reclaim the Night rally is one of many that occur around Australia every year.  The concept originated as a means for women to express public solidarity with each other and ‘reclaim’ their right to be out in public after dark without being in constant fear of sexual or…

  • NorMAC Nastiness in Hobart: A response

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    By Isla MacGregor Crikey! The pro-sex trade lobby have been misrepresenting Nordic Model supporters with a renewed vigour. The “Why be poor?” brigade of alleged “sex workers” certainly know how to spin a yarn but it’s the same old yarn and the public are just not swallowing it. After I had a remarkable opportunity to…

  • Amnesty Members put No Confidence motion in Amnesty Australia Board at Hobart AGM

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    By Isla MacGregor Members of Amnesty International Australia last Saturday (16th May), put a [i]No Confidence Motion[/i] in the [i]Amnesty International Australia Board[/i] over their actions on Amnesty’s proposed new sex law policy. Two resolutions were put before the Tasmanian Amnesty AGM including a [i]No Confidence Motion[/i] in the AIA Board and a resolution on…