ABC, 8.8.2024 Ads for products promising to address the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause are flooding social media, creating a “shameful marketing war zone” in which many claims are left unsubstantiated, a Senate inquiry has heard. Ads for products promising to address the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause are flooding social media, creating a “shameful marketing...
‘Good intentions are not enough’: Calls to consider complex coercive control faced by migrant women
SBS News, 24/2/2021 Groups representing culturally and linguistically diverse communities are calling for a cautious approach to criminalising coercive control that gives a voice to already vulnerable victim-survivors. Coercive and controlling behaviours are complex and can look vastly different across culturally and linguistically diverse communities, experts have told a parliamentary inquiry...
SA police ‘cleaning up’ sex work industry ahead of decriminalisation, parliamentary committee told
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.
Read more here
Queensland abortion laws in spotlight
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...