Tag: Tasmania
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The Media’s Campaign Against Media Freedom and Free Speech in Tasmania – Let Women Speak
This speech, delivered by Isla MacGregor at the Let Women Speak rally on the Parliament House lawns in Hobart in March 2023, outlines her concerns about media coverage, public institutions, and gender-identity policy debates in Tasmania. She argues that journalists and broadcasters have avoided reporting viewpoints from women’s and children’s rights advocates, describes her experiences…
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Tasmania’s The Examiner newspaper parts ways with editor in wake of fake trans incident letter
The editor at the centre of a faked account of a man entering female change rooms at a public pool being printed in a major Tasmanian newspaper has parted ways with the publication. Mark Westfield has told the ABC he is no longer the editor of The Examiner newspaper, just days after explaining he did not have…
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Regarding Toilet Facilities at Schools and Drag Queen Storytime – Email to DECYP
Below are emails between Women Speak Tasmania and the Department of Education, Children and Young People, with regards of Department policy on new unisex bathrooms at schools and Drag Queen storytime Letter from Ellen Thorne 26.02.23 Good afternoon, I am writing to request some information as to the design of school redevelopments with reference to…
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Opinion: Ignorance on Impacts of Gender Law Reforms
The Advocate Editorial ‘Trans, gender diverse face fear, ignorance’ (Saturday Feb 4th 2023), promotes an ideological position, which may represent the personal views of Anthony Haneveer but do not represent the views of the vast majority of Advocate readership. Without speaking to any of the people at the Hobart Aquatic Centre protest last Friday, to…
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Robin Banks, Women Speak Tasmania and the WILPF Controversy: A Historical Record
Introduction In late 2018, Women Speak Tasmania (WST) became involved in a public controversy that raised questions about freedom of expression, political disagreement, and the participation of women in debates surrounding proposed gender law reforms in Tasmania. The dispute began after former Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks contacted the Women’s International League for Peace and…
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The Dispute Between WoLF Tasmania and Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks: A Historical Record
Introduction In 2016, a dispute arose between Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Robin Banks, and members of the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) Tasmania during consultation on proposed reforms to Tasmania’s Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act. The dispute centred on recommendations that would have removed the requirement for sex reassignment surgery before a person could legally change…