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...
Rainbow Labor South Australia Inc, 1st Dec 2016 Rainbow Labor has welcomed today’s apology by South Australian Labor Premier, Jay Weatherill, to South Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people. The apology, seconded by the Leader of the Opposition, recognises the discrimination LGBTIQ people have suffered under South Australian laws. Read more here rlsa...
ABC News, 24/11/16 The Greens want South Australia to be part of a trial for a pill which can reduce the risk of HIV infection and is already being widely used overseas. The drug called PrEP — short for pre exposure prophylaxis — is made up of antiretroviral drugs taken by HIV-negative people to prevent HIV infection, according to the ACON website, which is primarily funded by the NSW Ministry of...
The Age, September 16 2016 – 7:31AM The legal age for consensual anal sex in Queensland has been lowered to 16 years, in line with other consensual sexual activity, and the word “sodomy” removed from the Criminal Code. The Queensland Parliament voted to remove the longstanding source of discrimination in Queensland’s Criminal Code on Thursday night. Read more here ...
Guardian Australia, Thursday 11 August 2016 13.23 AEST More than 100 academics have called on the New South Wales government to take abortion off the criminal code as Greens upper house member Mehreen Faruqi prepares to introduce the legislation. Law and criminology academics from across the state have signed a letter saying it is time to decriminalise abortion and calling for privacy zones to be...
ABC Radio, Monday, August 1, 2016 18:40:00 A group of Brisbane obstetricians and gynaecologists is calling for the right to opt out of performing abortions, if a bill decriminalising the practice gets through the Queensland Parliament. The group has made a submission to the parliamentary inquiry into proposed laws to take abortion out of Queensland’s criminal code. The inquiry is...