Tag: The Drum

Sex industry will win, vulnerable women lose, in N.T brothel legalisation plans

Brothel legalisation: a Top End race to the bottom Caroline Norma  …Tollner’s proposal to brothels is particularly cynical, given the population demographics of the Territory. As LNG development proceeds in Darwin, the city will host increasingly large numbers of white, cashed-up men who are a well-worn target consumer group of the sex industry. Only a small […]

Anti-women attitudes thriving: MTR in The Drum

Published today on Sexism: alive and well in Australia Virginia Haussegger is right to lament the status of women in other countries and the brutalities and indignities they suffer daily. But attitudes towards women in our own so-called liberated western democracy desperately need an overhaul as well. While I frequently write about the objectification of […]