– With AAP
Sex work could be fully decriminalised in Victoria within two years, with “incredibly outdated” laws regulating the industry set to be reviewed.
The inquiry comes as sex workers say the current legislation is putting their safety at risk.
Reason Party MP and long-time sex worker advocate Fiona Patten has been tasked with leading the first thorough examination of the state’s sex work laws since 1985…
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“It’s not about legal or illegal brothels,” she told reporters on Wednesday,
“The legislation, because it is so outdated, has made it very difficult for people to actually even comply with the law.”
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