Tag: Tasmania
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Women Speak Tasmania – Community Meeting, North West
On 14 September, Women Speak Tasmania met with a group of community members in the North West to discuss pressing concerns around free speech, cancel culture, and women’s sex-based rights. The gathering provided an important space for local parents and citizens to share their personal experiences and reflect on the challenges facing women and girls…
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Who Decides What Children Are Taught? The Growing Up Program and Parental Rights in Tasmania
In recent months, a debate has emerged in Tasmania about what primary-school children are being taught regarding bodies, relationships, and gender. At the centre of the discussion is the state’s “Growing Up Program” (GUP), a relationships and protective-behaviours curriculum delivered in many primary schools. The issue gained wider attention after One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson…
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Speaking Truth About the Impacts of Sex Self-ID: A Rebuttal to 2018 Claims
In 2018, several Tasmanian women’s organisations publicly criticised Women Speak Tasmania (WST) for warning that proposed amendments to the Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage Amendments) Bill 2018—which introduced sex self-identification into Tasmanian law—would erode women’s rights and compromise safeguarding. At the time, these organisations dismissed our concerns as “ideological” and “discriminatory,” insisting that recognising gender…
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AAWAA – Local Action Interview with Isla MacGregor
AAWAA brings to you Local Action — interviews with women Getting It Done across Australia. In this edition of Local Action, we talk to Isla MacGregor. Isla has been fighting the good fight for human rights for decades. She was abruptly dragged into this new wave of feminist activism and brings to it a wealth…
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Concerns Regarding Free Speech and the Anti-Discrimination Act – Letter to Tasmania Premier
Dear Premier Rockliff, Re: Request for Delegation Meeting – Concerns Regarding Free Speech and the Anti-Discrimination Act We thank you for your letter dated 17 July 2025, in which you reaffirmed your commitment to protecting Tasmanians from discrimination while also upholding key freedoms, including freedom of belief, expression, and association. In light of this, we…
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Concerns Regarding Human Rights, Free Speech and the Anti-Discrimination Act – Letter to Peter George
Dear Peter George, Re: Request for Delegation – Concerns Regarding Human Rights, Free Speech and the Anti-Discrimination Act We would like to congratulate you on your success at the recent state election and to wish you well as you assume your seat in the Tasmanian Parliament. In light of your recent comments on the ABC…
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Education, Not Indoctrination: A Women Speak Tasmania Meeting
On 10 August 2025, Women Speak Tasmania met with concerned parents and community members to discuss the growing problem of gender ideology in schools and the influence of the lobby group Working It Out. A detailed presentation was given on how the Department of Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) has embedded gender ideology throughout…
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Resign as patron of Equality Australia – Letter to Governor General
Dear Governor General I am concerned that you are making an unwise and inappropriate decision by being patron of Equality Australia. Equality Australia is currently interfering in the court case Giggle v Tickle by opposing the Lesbian Action Group’s position re the existence of and the definition of lesbian. Lesbians are same sex attracted females.…