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- June in Hobart a Women Speak Tasmania meetingReport from WST meeting 1 June 2025 from Neve. Women Speak Tasmania is active in standing up for women’s rights, children’s rights and the rights of lesbian and gay people. It was a… Read more: June in Hobart a Women Speak Tasmania meeting
- Welcome to the Forum: “Women’s Rights in the Modern World”On 7 May 2025, members of Women Speak Tasmania held a private forum titled “Women’s Rights in the Modern World” at the Devonport RSL. This event marks a significant milestone for women’s rights… Read more: Welcome to the Forum: “Women’s Rights in the Modern World”
- Controversial group sets sight on another venue in quest to hold forumWomen Speak Tasmania (WST) has set its sights on the Devonport RSL to hold a forum previously cancelled at two other locations on the Coast. The rescheduled forum garnered strong comments from prominent LGBTQIA+… Read more: Controversial group sets sight on another venue in quest to hold forum
- Invitation to the Forum: Women’s rights in the Modern WorldWomen Speak Tasmania members are pleased to inform that our previous cancel forum will go ahead at the RSL Club in Devonport on 7 May despite the threats received from trans activists and… Read more: Invitation to the Forum: Women’s rights in the Modern World
- Chronology of The Hive – Ulverstone CancellationAfter our Forum “Women’s Rights in the Modern World” was cancelled by the Devonport Library, we tried to hire another venue called The Hive in Ulverstone. We made a preliminary booking over the… Read more: Chronology of The Hive – Ulverstone Cancellation
- Chronology of Devonport Library Forum cancellationCorrespondence between WST and Libraries Tasmania Emma Shaw, a member of WST, hired a room at the Devonport library to host a Forum called “Women’s Rights in the Modern World”. We were going… Read more: Chronology of Devonport Library Forum cancellation
- ‘Thugs veto’: Controversial group claims it was shafted over NW eventsA controversial group dubbed anti-trans by many has come out swinging over what they call the cancellation of public forums at two North-West venues. However, one venue operator denied the group’s claim for… Read more: ‘Thugs veto’: Controversial group claims it was shafted over NW events
- Panel on Free Speech in Australia and book launchFree Speech Union Australia organised a discussion panel at Hobart Town Hall with Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan to discuss his book, Tough Crowd. In it, he details how he was cancelled, banned from… Read more: Panel on Free Speech in Australia and book launch
- Chronology of Burnie Library Forum cancellationBelow are the details to our cancelled forum at the Burnie Library on the 21st March 2024, which was about the latest details coming from Europe in relation to the use of puberty blockers and… Read more: Chronology of Burnie Library Forum cancellation
- Forum: Puberty Blockers – The 21st Century global medical scandalWomen Speak Tasmania members organised a Forum in Burnie Library to warn parents of the risks of the use of puberty blockers in gender medicine. But the library cancelled WST’s booking on Monday… Read more: Forum: Puberty Blockers – The 21st Century global medical scandal
- ‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forumA feminist group opposed to trans ideology is claiming censorship after the Burnie Library cancelled a forum organised for Thursday to discuss the use of puberty blockers in Tasmania. Women Speak Tasmania (WST)… Read more: ‘Worst attack on free speech’ as library cancels gender medicine forum
- Rally in Hobart – Let Women SpeakLet Women Speak Australia – Hobart Australia Women Speak Tasmania and people who came to support the Let Women Speak event in 20223 outside Parliament will never forget the inaction of Tasmania Police… Read more: Rally in Hobart – Let Women Speak
- Conversion Therapy forum staged in HobartA forum in parliament to discuss a proposed ban on gender identity conversion therapy has heard that Tasmanians should be free to seek therapy, while a Sydney psychologist questioned the wisdom of allowing… Read more: Conversion Therapy forum staged in Hobart
- Robust and respectful free debate is vitalComment by Isla MacGregor Cassy O’Connor’s recent call for Premier Jeremy Rockliff to ban the Free Speech Alliance Australia forum at Parliament House on conversion therapy laws is regrettable. Democracy can only flourish… Read more: Robust and respectful free debate is vital
- Forum: Conversion laws: risks and harms?Free Speech Alliance Australia Forum at Parliament House Hobart Date: 23 November 2022 Time: 6-8.30 The Free Speech Alliance Australia would like to give a warm welcome tonight for everyone attending our first… Read more: Forum: Conversion laws: risks and harms?
- An invitation to the Forum: Conversion Therapy Laws – risks and harms?Dear Member of the Tasmanian Parliament, I am writing to invite you to attend a forum on the contentious changes to Tasmanian law being proposed by the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute on the… Read more: An invitation to the Forum: Conversion Therapy Laws – risks and harms?
- Transgender flags flown at Hobart Town Hall during Women’s ForumDuring the Coalition for Biological Reality Forum ‘Gender Identity in Law’ at Hobart Town Hall on 26 February 2022, transgender flags were flown. Numerous questions were asked of Lord Mayor and CEO on… Read more: Transgender flags flown at Hobart Town Hall during Women’s Forum
- Quakers cancel booking for women’s forum The Clerks of the Tasmanian Regional Meeting (TRM) of the Quakers yesterday cancelled the forum booking for Women Speak Tasmania scheduled for Monday night 18 March. The forum was to be held in… Read more: Quakers cancel booking for women’s forum
- Attack on freedom of speechTwo feminists have accused a former anti-discrimination commissioner of trying to stop them from speaking at a human rights forum because of their opposition to transgender reforms. Bronwyn Williams and Isla MacGregor were… Read more: Attack on freedom of speech
- Prostitution – the global humanitarian disaster of the 21CBy 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… Read more: Prostitution – the global humanitarian disaster of the 21C