Tag: Tasmania Attorney General
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Reforming the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 to Restore Sex-Based Protections for Women and Girls
Submission to the Tasmania Attorney General Guy Barnett on 15 December 2025 1. Introduction Women Speak Tasmania (WST) welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission regarding urgent reforms to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tasmania) (“the Act”). WST is a community organisation committed to safeguarding the rights, safety, and dignity of women and girls in Tasmania. Our…
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Tasmanians Speak: How Gender Policies and Anti-Discrimination Laws Are Harming Our Community
Women Speak Tasmania – Testimonial Project Launch and Delegation to the Attorney General, 15 December 2025 Throughout 2025, members of Women Speak Tasmania (WST) have been engaging in extensive community outreach. We held public meetings in Hobart on 16 June and 10 August, and in the North West on 14 September. From these gatherings, conversations,…
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Opinion: Lessons from the Harwood Case: Why Evidence, Not Ideology, Must Guide Prison Policy
The Attorney-General Guy Barnett’s recent contradictory statements in The Mercury and The Australian regarding trans inmate policy highlight the need for a broader public debate about women’s rights and the legal distinction between sex and gender. While Guy Barnett recently decided that a transgender serious child sex offender would be placed in the men’s prison,…
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Trans Prisoner Debacle Exposes AG Double Standards on Sex and Gender
Recent reports in The Australian and The Mercury expose conflicting positions given by Attorney-General Guy Barnett. In response to a specific question from The Australian about whether he will update policy on trans prisoners, the Attorney-General said: “After recently being briefed on a request from a serious child sex offender to be placed in a…
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Barnett Rejects Trans Jail ‘Ban’
In the Mercury article by Duncan Abey from November 13 2025, Tasmanian Attorney-General Guy Barnett rejected claims that the Tasmanian Government had introduced a ban on transgender prisoners being housed in women’s prisons. He said his decision to refuse a convicted child sex offender’s request to be placed in a women’s correctional facility was consistent…
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Women Speak Tasmania Congratulates Attorney-General for Protecting Female Prisoners
Women Speak Tasmania (WST) congratulates the Tasmanian Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Guy Barnett, for taking decisive action to protect vulnerable women in prison by ensuring that a male sex offender who identifies as female will serve his sentence in a male facility. This decision follows the recent sentencing of a Tasmanian father who identifies…
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Trans ban in Tasmanian jails after horrific rape of three-year-old
A father who raped his own three-year-old daughter has demanded to be placed in a women’s prison in Tasmania, prompting the state government to declare it has banned trans-identifying male prisoners from women’s prisons. The pedophile, described by Tasmanian prison sources as “the worst of the worst”, set up a camera to record himself engaging…
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Concerns Regarding Tasmanian Government’s Recent Decision to Ban Women Speak Tasmania from using Public Libraries – Letter to Tasmanian Attorney General
Dear Attorney General, I’m writing to you about the Tasmanian Government’s recent decision to ban Women Speak Tasmania from using public libraries. According to an article in The Australian the women’s rights group has been blocked multiple times from booking meeting rooms because their discussions about gender policies in schools supposedly breach Diversity and Inclusion…
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Concern Regarding the Exclusion of Women Speak Tasmania from Public Library Facilities – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney-General, I am writing to express my concern about the recent decision to prevent Women Speak Tasmania from holding a meeting in a Tasmanian public library. This group represents women peacefully advocating for the protection and restoration of sex-based rights. Many Australian women are deeply concerned that gender self-identification laws have eroded important rights relating to…
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Request for Intervention in the Implementation of New Libraries Tasmania Guidelines – Letter to Tasmania Attorney General
Dear Attorney General Guy Barnett, Re: Request for Intervention in the Implementation of New Libraries Tasmania Guidelines I’m writing to raise serious concerns regarding freedom of speech and political belief in the application of new Libraries Tasmania venue guidelines. Women Speak Tasmania (WST) has recently been informed that Libraries Tasmania is now vetting community organisations…