Confronting the Australian politics of resignation on prostitution

ACT committee misses opportunity to address harms: ‘normalises prostitution, cuts back on regulation, waters down health safeguards’ Caroline Norma The chair of a committee appointed to review the ACT’s Prostitution Act took the significant step last week of attaching a 9-page appendix to the committee’s final report outlining her ‘dissent’ to its findings. In this […]

Body slur against female MLA degrades all women

Sending the wrong message on body image The ACT Government has taken steps to address body image concerns, promoting media literacy and positive body image. It is examining the development of a voluntary code of conduct for retailers and supports a school curriculum looking at the how the “media might at times be sending the […]