Tag: Hobart
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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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Forum: “Review of Transgender Law Reforms”
On 17 March 2019, Women Speak Tasmania (WST) announced that the Tasmanian Regional Meeting of the Quakers cancelled their booking for a public forum due to be held at the Friends Meeting House in New Town. The cancellation came just one day before the event, which was set to discuss the impact of transgender law…
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Salamanca Market’s Attempt to Silence Women’s Voices
On Saturday, 9 February 2019, Women Speak Tasmania (WST) held a media conference at Salamanca, just outside the market precinct, to launch our flyer outlining the impacts of proposed transgender law reforms on women’s human rights. Following the conference, volunteers handed out flyers inside Salamanca Market, speaking directly with the public. The response was mixed—many…
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Salamanca Market’s Attack on Women’s Freedom of Speech
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 so positive responses but…
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Reclaim the Night – Is It Still About Women?
Tonight’s Hobart 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 other assault. Women began these…
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NorMAC Nastiness in Hobart: A Response
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 speak at Parliament…
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Amnesty Members put No Confidence Motion in Amnesty Australia Board at Hobart AGM
Members of Amnesty International Australia last Saturday (16th May), put a No Confidence Motion in the Amnesty International Australia Board over their actions on Amnesty’s proposed new sex law policy. Two resolutions were put before the Tasmanian Amnesty AGM including a No Confidence Motion in the AIA Board and a resolution on all members right…