Posts tagged Sex Work

The Victorian Government is currently undertaking a review to consider whether decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria is necessary. Fiona Patten MP is leading the …

Barbarella Karpinski In the 2020 Mardi Gras Parade, queer sex workers celebrated with the awesome Queer Sex Worker float – “Soliciting for Change”. But things …

“We have a right to sit at the table or in the pews just like anyone else.”

A Senate inquiry showed that four in ten people weren’t aware a record would be created for them in the coming months.

The Australian Christian Lobby’s state branch decried the proposal, saying taxpayers should not fund surgeries that advocates say are “life-changing” and sometimes “life-saving”.

“Sex workers of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex characteristics face serious human rights violations.”

“Much of the work conducted by sex worker organisations today still takes its cues from Roberta’s early work.”

“Common sex worker safety strategies are criminalised.”

“It’s a tricky area, particularly in sex work where there are very tight laws around what can and can’t be said in marketing.”

“Police attitudes don’t change overnight, but they’ll never change unless we have decriminalisation.”