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Pages tagged "Legal"


Lesbian Action Group challenges decision that men can be lesbians

Posted on News · August 30, 2024 6:32 PM

The Lesbian Action Group will be in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Melbourne on 2-3 September 2024 to appeal the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) decision last year not to grant them an exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act to run female-only lesbian events.

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UK’s decision to block Scotland’s controversial self-ID bill gives Queensland cause for pause

Posted on News · January 17, 2023 8:07 PM

By Rachael Wong

Something incredible happened today.

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Sex Self-ID laws are incompatible with efforts to end violence against women

Posted on News · January 04, 2023 6:35 AM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

In October 2022, the Federal Government and state and territory governments released the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032. 

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A bill to protect babies born alive after an abortion shouldn't be controversial

Posted on News · December 09, 2022 5:06 PM

On 30 November 2022, Nationals Senator Matt Canavan and Liberal Senator Alex Antic, introduced a private members bill into the Australian Parliament that would protect the rights of children born alive after an abortion. The bill was sponsored by United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet.

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WIN for women & children: Visa and Mastercard suspend ad payments to Pornhub amid lawsuit

Posted on News · August 13, 2022 2:08 PM

Women’s and children’s advocates have been celebrating the latest win in the fight against Pornhub after Visa and Mastercard suspended card payments for advertising on the porn giant’s platform on 4 August.

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Lessons from Bailey & Tavistock: Australia must follow UK’s lead in gender ideology pushback

Posted on News · August 02, 2022 3:34 PM

A couple of weeks ago we wrote a piece about how the tide of gender ideology is turning in the UK, touching on positive developments like Maya Forstater winning her discrimination case against her former employer who had fired her for her views on biological sex, British Triathlon restricting trans athletes from women’s sporting events, and several British prime ministerial candidates signalling their support for women’s sex-based rights. Since then, in a win for women’s sport, England’s Rugby Football Union and Rugby Football League also confirmed that women’s competitions will be restricted to females.

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The end of Roe brings us closer to the world women and children deserve

Posted on News · June 26, 2022 2:30 PM

By Rachael Wong

The magnitude of what has just happened in the US is still setting in, and while many of us view it with hope, there are many others who see it as a tragedy. There will be more to say in the days and weeks to come, but these are my initial thoughts on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade and its implications for women and children.

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Women’s advocates say female inmates should not be forced to share prisons with biological males

Posted on News · June 24, 2022 2:53 PM

It is great to see the issue of males being housed in women’s prisons finally getting some airtime in Australia in a piece by Clarissa Bye in today’s Daily Telegraph.

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Women’s Forum Australia submission opposing harmful bid to decriminalise prostitution in Queensland

Posted on News · June 22, 2022 1:45 PM

Ignoring the evidence of the harms of decriminalisation and the sex industry more generally, the Queensland Government has tasked the Queensland Law Reform Commission (QLRC) with recommending a decriminalised model of prostitution law in Queensland. Women’s Forum Australia recently made a submission on the QLRC’s Consultation Paper, “A framework for a decriminalised sex work industry in Queensland”. We reproduce the submission in full below (you can also download a copy here).

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Rape victim fights back after a trans-identified male was given access to women-only support group

Posted on News · May 04, 2022 4:03 PM

Vulnerable women continue to get the short end of the stick in the growing conflict between women’s rights and transgender rights, particularly when it comes to female-only spaces and services.

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