Liz Forsyth, CEO of YWCA Adelaide – in The Advertiser, August 2, 2017 SOUTH Australia has some of the most outdated and strictest laws around sex work in the country. However the Bill to decriminalise sex work may soon be before the House of Assembly, having successfully passed the Legislative Council by 13 votes to eight earlier in July. What will this reform mean? Will sex workers take...
Sydney Morning Herald, July 22 2017
“We consider ourselves to be potential targets for domestic terrorism.”
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Joint media release with SIN and Scarlet Alliance, July 6, 2017 The South Australian Sex Industry Network (SIN) and Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association are today celebrating the decision of the South Australian Select Committee of the Legislative Council, to recommend the passing of the Statutes Amendment (Decriminalisation of Sex Work) Bill 2015 without amendment. The...
Lawyers Weekly, 02 June 2017 The Law Society of South Australia has voiced its support for a bill to decriminalise sex work in the state. The select committee into the decriminalisation of sex work delivered its final report earlier this week, in the culmination of a two-year consultation process. After a vote of four to three, the committee recommended that the bill, which will come before the...
(Via SIN, April 2017) Laws can be complicated, but the sex worker community agrees on decriminalisation. Watch sex worker and activist Juno Mac unpack the different legal frameworks that affect sex workers, and then explain that decriminalisation is the only way forward. “If you care about gender equality or poverty or migration or public health, then sex worker rights matter to you,”...
ABC News, 22/02/2017
Police have seized cars, computers, phones, and loose change belonging to people suspected of working in the sex industry, a South Australian parliamentary committee has heard.
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