Victoria to review sex work laws
Nov 27, 2019
Victoria is set to thoroughly review its laws regulating sex work for the first time in more than 30 years, with a view to potentially decriminalising the industry.
The six-month inquiry, which will start next year, will examine workplace safety, stigma and criminal activity within the...
Alex White and Kieran Rooney, Herald Sun
Brothels, escort services and massage parlours will be put under the microscope as part of an unprecedented review in Victoria that could lead to the decriminalisation of sex work.
The state government launched the statewide sex work...
Australian Associated Press
A day after the Northern Territory parliament voted to legalise sex work, the Victorian government has announced the first large-scale review of laws regulating the industry since 1985.
The six-month inquiry will examine workplace safety, stigma and criminal...
“Illogical” plan to lose QVM patrons
Nov 27, 2019
By Spencer Fowler Steen
Fears have been expressed that Queen Victoria Market (QVM) will lose business due to the proposed closure of the existing car park earmarked for a new “Market Square” .
In a speech to a Friends of QVM meeting on November 20, property developer and...
Sex work decriminalised in the Northern Territory
Nov 27, 2019
By Oliver Gordon on PM
A law decriminalising sex work has passed as law in the Northern Territory.
Sex worker advocates are thrilled at the development, but say there is still a long way to go to ensure all people working in the industry are...
Gillian McNally, News Corp Australia
"The brown acid circulating around us isn’t any good … it’s your own trip so be my guest, but please be advised there’s a warning on that one, okay?”
That laissez-faire drug warning remains a defining moment of Woodstock, the 1969 event that...
Call to scrap Victoria’s blasphemy laws
Nov 26, 2019
With AAP
It's time for Victoria to ditch "archaic" blasphemy laws because they favour Christian faiths, a state independent MP says.
Upper House Reason Party MP Fiona Patten will table a bill in parliament on Wednesday to abolish the laws, in line with Queensland, WA, New Zealand, Canada...
Victorian Parliamentary Internship Program Report
Nov 25, 2019
This year I was very lucky to have the exceptional Ethan Katz as my intern as part of the Victorian Parliamentary Internship Program.
Ethan's report was titled: 'Legislating for Future Well-Being: Examining the construct and building the framework in Victoria'.
Ethan examined...
Mornings with Neil Mitchell 17/11/19 – audio
Nov 17, 2019
Mornings with Neil...
MEDIA RELEASE: The Greens and Reason Party make history by joining forces for first ever co-sponsored bill
Nov 12, 2019
The Victorian Greens and Reason Party will make history tomorrow when they table a co-sponsored bill introducing a two-year pill testing pilot in Victoria.
This unprecedented show of cooperation marks the first time two parties have co-sponsored a bill in a single house in the...