Women Speak Tasmania

Tag: politics

  • Women need voice

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    The debate over the religious freedom Bill was poorly timed as it should have followed on from a Bill on amendments to the Federal Sex Discrimination Act to properly define the definition of woman and man. Fortunately, Senator Claire Chandler’s Bill for amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act to save women sports will be debated…

  • Open and Frank Discussions only way Forward Regarding Gender Law Reforms

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    Conflict on the topic of gender makes the need for full debate all the more pressing, write Isla MacGregor, Jessica Hoyle and Rebecca Crossin MANY people, especially feminists, have been excluded from commenting or taking part in consultations over the gender law reforms and their impacts on sex-based rights. We have also been vilified and…

  • Women Back Repeal of Gender Laws

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    Women Speak Tasmania congratulate the Liberal State Conference decision to repeal the state’s gender reforms. “The Tasmanian gender reforms have most definitely had adverse consequences for girls and women in Tasmania.” “Girls and women’s freedom of speech and their right to assert that sex-based rights must be protected, has been severely impacted”. “Women Speak Tasmania…

  • Andrew Wilkie Office Ban Spurs Transgender Row

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    Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has banned a women’s group from office facilities made available to community organisations because of its “exclusionary” views on transgender issues. The federal member for Clark allows community groups to use his taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. Until recently this included feminist group Women Speak Tasmania. WST has in recent years…

  • MP whose ex-wife is now a man bans women’s group from using an office because it holds ‘trans-exclusionary’ views

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    A feminist group has been banned from using free office facilities normally available to community organisations because Independent MP Andrew Wilkie said it holds ‘trans-exlusionary’ views. Andrew Wilkie has banned Women Speak Tasmania from using taxpayer-funded photocopying facilities in Hobart. The federal member for Clark said his sensitivity about the issue has been heightened because…

  • 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…

  • Request to Include Protections for Females on the Grounds of Biological ‘sex’ in the Anti-Discrimination Act – Letter to Elise Archer

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    WST representatives sent a letter to Tasmania Attorney General Elise Archer requesting to include protections for females on the grounds of biological ‘sex’ in the Anti-Discrimination Act Dear Attorney General Elise Archer, We are writing to formally request that the Government consider drafting a bill for amendment of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas) to include…

  • State Government wants time to consider ‘dog’s breakfast’ Tasmania gender law

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    HISTORIC changes to transgender laws have been passed by the Tasmanian parliament after Liberal Speaker Sue Hickey repeatedly crossed the floor to support Labor and the Greens. The laws mean the recording of a child’s gender on their birth certificate will be optional, that people over 16 will be able to change their gender by…

  • Transforming Tasmania Cries Foul over Poll Results

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    The EMRS poll results released yesterday indicate the majority of Tasmanians do not support changes to the state’s birth registration process proposed by Labor and the Greens. The changes were passed as amendments to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018 by our parliament’s Lower House in November last year.  In March they…

  • Investigation into Former Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks

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    Women Speak Tasmania is disappointed that Anti-discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt has referred our complaint against former Anti-discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks to the Ombudsman for investigation. We submitted our complaint against Robin Banks when our organisation was no-platformed last year at a public forum in Human Rights Week organised by the Women’s International League for Peace…