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- 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
- 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
- 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 in City of Hobart councilDuring the Coalition for Biological Reality Forum ‘Gender identity in Law’ at Hobart Town Hall on 26 February 2022, trans flags were flown. Numerous attempts through questions at HCC Council meetings with Lord… Read more: Transgender flags in City of Hobart council
- 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