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Scarlet Alliance and SIN joint statement
Scarlet Alliance, the Australian Sex Workers Association, and SIN, the South Australian peer sex worker organisation, refute the comments made by SAPOL commissioner, Grant Stevens, in the InDaily article published on the 19th August, 2021. In the article, as well as...
Sex workers, their organisations and the Scarlet Alliance condemn Canberra brothel owner’s disrespectful and deceptive behaviour
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, our member organisations and individual sex workers publicly condemn this week’s malicious, self-serving and ignorant commentary (Canberra Times, 18 August) by Canberra brothel owner Aaron Jones. Scarlet...
Scarlet Alliance and Vixen Collective joint statement
Scarlet Alliance and Vixen Collective are disappointed with the unnecessary focus on sex work in the recent reporting on Victoria’s COVID-19 infections. A sex worker in St Kilda was identified as one of the 24 new infections overnight in Victoria. This person...
Sex workers applaud Andrews Government’s decriminalisation announcement
Vixen Collective and Scarlet Alliance welcome the announcement by the Andrews government committing to decriminalise sex work in Victoria. The repeal of the Sex Work Act 1994 is a positive and urgently overdue change. The licensing framework it establishes for sex...
Sex workers condemn the passage of the Online Safety Bill, fear loss of access to essential harm reduction and workplace health and safety tools
The passage of the Online Safety Bill 2021 in the Federal Parliament earlier this week leaves the sex worker community fearing for further loss of essential tools that protect our livelihoods and safety. Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, along with...
Policing is not a public health strategy: Emergency funds for sex workers needed
Joint Statement from Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association; Respect Inc, QLD; SIN, SA; SWEAR, WA; SWOP ACT; SWOP NT; SWOP NSW; VIXEN Collective, VIC:- Scarlet Alliance, the peak body representing sex workers and sex worker organisations in Australia,...
Joint Statement on sex worker workplace closures
Joint Statement on Sex Work Workplace Closures from Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association; Respect Inc, QLD; SIN, SA; SWEAR, WA; SWOP ACT; SWOP NT; SWOP NSW; VIXEN Collective, VIC The Prime Minister of Australia issued a list of additional businesses to...
Sex Workers Celebrate the Passing of the Bill to Decriminalise Sex Work in the NT
Today, 26th November, 2019, sex workers in Northern Territory and throughout Australia celebrate the passing of the Sex Industry Bill 2019 in NT Parliament. This places NT as only the third jurisdiction in the world to decriminalise sex work. Significantly this bill...
SIN and Scarlet Alliance Joint Media Release
Sex workers devastated as South Australian Lower House vote against industrial, health and human rights for sex workers.Sex workers in South Australia and throughout Australia are heartbroken after the Members of the House of Assembly turned their backs on the rights...
NT Sex Industry Bill
Today the Economic Policy and Scrutiny Committee will be holding a public hearing into the Northern Territory Sex Industry Bill, 2019. This public hearing will provide further opportunity for sex workers through the Sex Worker Reference Group (SWRG), the SWOP NT and...
SWOP NT and Scarlet Alliance: Sex Workers Congratulate NT Government for Bill to Decriminalise Sex Work
The Sex Worker Outreach Program (SWOP NT), the Sex Worker Reference Group (SWRG) and Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association congratulate the Northern Territory Labor Government for engaging with sex workers, our organisations and national association in...
Scarlet Alliance and SWOP NSW Joint Statement
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association and Sex Workers Outreach Project of NewSouth Wales (SWOP) extend our sincere condolences to those affected by the murder committed inyesterday’s Clarence Street attack in Sydney. The sex worker community is...