This section gathers news reports and verified information relating to violence against women and girls. It includes developments concerning sexual assault, custodial settings such as prisons and detention facilities, and cases of sexual exploitation.
- Barnett Rejects Trans Jail ‘Ban’Tasmanian Attorney-General Guy Barnett has rejected claims the government had “banned” transgender inmates from serving time in women’s prisons, saying his recent decision to deny a convicted child abuser’s request to be housed with females was consistent with current policies. … Read more: Barnett Rejects Trans Jail ‘Ban’
- Trans ban in Tasmanian jails after horrific rape of three-year-oldA 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… Read more: Trans ban in Tasmanian jails after horrific rape of three-year-old
- Fed Govt silent amid fears over release of ‘high-risk’ foreign-born rapistFederal Immigration Minister Tony Burke has failed to comment on a petition seeking the deportation of a Sudanese-born man jailed for raping a 76-year-old woman a decade ago. Christo Brown was sentenced in 2018 to eight years’ imprisonment after a… Read more: Fed Govt silent amid fears over release of ‘high-risk’ foreign-born rapist
- Educator fired over alleged grooming behaviour hired at public primary schoolAn educator employed at a private school in Northern Tasmania was fired after an internal investigation deemed his behaviour posed a “serious risk of grooming”. However, he has since been hired at a public primary school in Launceston. The educator’s… Read more: Educator fired over alleged grooming behaviour hired at public primary school
- LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage muralA mural depicting a woman in bondage painted by a Los Angeles-based artist in Fitzroy has sparked hundreds of people to flood the City of Yarra’s inbox with complaints. A mural depicting a woman in bondage gagged and bound with… Read more: LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage mural
- Rape is rape regardless of sexual orientation, non-binary offender toldA North-West offender has been jailed for rape with the judge telling them that unconsensual sex was a crime regardless of the form in which it was committed. The offender, who cannot be named, was sentenced in the Supreme Court… Read more: Rape is rape regardless of sexual orientation, non-binary offender told
- More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimesViolent offences among male prisoners who identify as women shows why they shouldn’t be in female prisons, say women’s rights campaigners More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent… Read more: More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes
- Sex rights group LGB Tasmania has called for a boycott of TargetSex rights group LGB Tasmania is to stage a protest outside Launceston Target on Saturday, calling for a boycott of the store until it removes copies of controversial children’s book Welcome to Sex, by Yumi Stynes and Dr Melissa Kang.… Read more: Sex rights group LGB Tasmania has called for a boycott of Target
- Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation imagesA 30-year-old woman going through a gender change and her 23-year-old male partner have each been convicted of possessing child exploitation material. Anna Koizumi Umpisa Simmons appeared in the Burnie Magistrate’s Court on Monday after pleading guilty to one count… Read more: Couple fined after police find both with child exploitation images