Women Speak Tasmania

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  • Women and girls the big losers in Options Paper …

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    Equal Opportunity Tasmania ( HERE ) has recently released an Options Paper proposing changes to the Births Deaths and Marriages Act. The proposed changes would allow people to change the biological sex recorded on their birth certificates based entirely on self-identification and without having undergone a physical sex change. Within the Options Paper, Equal Opportunity Tasmania states…

  • Sex offender’s sentence must be appealed

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    By Isla MacGregor On 23 December we read in the Mercury that Darren John Fenton, 48, received a suspended sentence after being found guilty of the indecent assault of two 13-year old girls on the East Coast last year. The manifestly inadequate sentence, delivered by Justice Helen Wood, is a sorry indictment of the Tasmanian…

  • Amnesty International condemned over fast-tracking of sex laws policy

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    By Isla MacGregor Human Rights and Women’s groups along with Survivors have been outraged over the continued attempt by Amnesty International to rail road through their policy on prostitution after being exposed for failing to properly consult with their international membership base and stakeholders. The proposed Amnesty International International Council policy calling for the decriminalisation…

  • Rodney Croome OAM out of order on surrogacy

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    Rodney Croome’s recent statement questioning the legal requirement that altruistic surrogates be at least 25 years of age and have already given birth, exposes his poor judgement in commenting on matters about which he is ill informed – namely women’s rights and reproduction https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-29/parents-of-tasmania27s-first-surrogate-baby-call-for-more-supp/6355392 The Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) expressed their deep concern that…

  • Sex Discrimination Act Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Act 2013

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    No. 98, 2013 An Act to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, and for related purposes

  • 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…

  • Sex Discrimination Act 1984

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    Act No. 4 of 1984 as amended This compilation was prepared on 5 February 2010 taking into account amendments up to Act No. 124 of 2009 The text of any of those amendments not in force on that date is appended in the Notes section The operation of amendments that have been incorporated may beaffected…

  • Cross-dressing man sentenced for battery

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    A judge says the man convicted of battery, who is awaiting a sex change, could face harsh treatment in state prison. NEW PORT RICHEY — Patrick Hagan shuffled off to serve his 21/2-year state prison sentence wearing a black-and-pink print dress and a matching pink blouse. But before he held out his wrists to accept…