Midsumma Festival to kick off with a day-long consent festival in 2019
Next year’s festival will boast 165 events created by 1,600 artists and performers across 75 venues.
Next year’s festival will boast 165 events created by 1,600 artists and performers across 75 venues.
The party had previously been in support of harsher sex work laws.
“This will be an absolute disaster for sex workers in Victoria”
A motion to introduce laws further criminalising sex work in Victoria is set to be discussed at the Liberal Party’s upcoming state conference.
Victorian sex workers have criticised the government’s funding for Project Respect as ill-informed.
The sentencing manual now says a sex worker’s profession should have no effect on the sentence of a sex offender.
The Victorian Government has released its updated Sex Work Regulations 2016, leaving many in the sex work community underwhelmed.