Tag: politics
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Anti-discrimination boss to face bias claim over sex change plan
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Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, will find herself on the other side of a sex discrimination claim, before the Australian Human Rights Commission. Ms Banks has outraged some feminists by recommending changes to state law to allow men who identify as women, but who have not had a sex change, to legally register as female. An activist…
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Young Labor Didn’t Do its Homework
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By Isla MacGregor Tasmanian Labor’s agenda for its conference in Queenstown this weekend has promised an opportunity for ‘robust and spirited debate’. While the decriminalisation of brothels and the legalisation of some illicit drugs are being proposed by two separate branches of the party, the coupling of both proposals is difficult to avoid. A more…
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The reluctance of Tasmanian authorities …
By Isla MacGregor Consultation Session with Michel Forst, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders – Civil Society Activists, Saturday 8 October 2016 Representatives of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) Southern Tasmania, Nordic Model Australia Coalition (NorMAC) and Whistleblowers Tasmania attended the civil society activists consultation session in Hobart. M. Forst is visiting Australia…
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Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …
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By Isla MacGregor Whistleblowers Tasmania has backed the call by Tessa Anne from the Women’s Liberation Front for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the conduct of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks and Equal Opportunity Tasmania Policy Advisor Leica Wagner. The allegations made by Tessa Anne and reported in The Australian on Saturday 1st October are significant…
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Prostitution – the global humanitarian disaster of the 21C
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By Isla MacGregor Amnesty International’s Sex Trade Policy – Rights for Whom? Talk by Isla MacGregor Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania Introduction Thank you, Simone, for speaking of the harms of the global sex trade with such clarity. I hope I can add something to the debate by discussing Amnesty International’s recent policy announcement on what…
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Opinion: A reality check on sex work
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By Isla MacGregor Recent articles have argued for and against decriminalization of prostitution. It’s an emotive subject, likely to raise strong commentary, so let’s try and see this argument against some indisputable facts. One: the entire weight of mankind’s experience in all civilised societies round the world has always centred on a stable family (or tribe)…
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Sex Discrimination Act Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Act 2013
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in ResourcesNo. 98, 2013 An Act to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, and for related purposes
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Sex Discrimination Act 1984
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in ResourcesAct 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…