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Scarlet Alliance and SWOP NSW: VALE Roberta Perkins
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association and SWOP NSW mourn thepassing of academic, researcher, author and trans and sex worker rightsactivist Roberta Perkins. Roberta passed away yesterday afternoon 26th June,2018. Roberta Perkins lived and worked at the...
Joint Media Release, Scarlet Alliance, SWOP, ACT & AIDS Action Council
Sex workers welcome changes to the sex work regulations in the ACT. Today the ACT Government have introduced amendments to the Prostitution Act 1992. The changes have been welcomed by sex workers and advocates as a key step towards the recognition of sex work as work...
Scarlet Alliance and Vixen Collective: Sex workers slam Victorian Liberal Party support of harmful laws against sex workers
Yesterday the Victorian Liberal Party passed a motion to support the harmful Nordic Model of sex work regulation. The Nordic Model criminalises clients and the support structures of sex workers as well as isolating and harming sex workers. There is a mountain of...
HIV criminalisation stigmatises HIV and contributes to future HIV transmissions
Following a verdict handed down on 19/1/18 in the WA District Court, Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA), the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine...
HIV criminalisation stigmatises HIV and contributes to future HIV transmissions
Following a verdict handed down on 19/1/18 in the WA District Court, Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA), the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine...
Scarlet Alliance, Magenta and SWEAR: Stigma, Discrimination and Incarceration in a Male Prison for CJ Palmer
In WA district Court CJ Palmer, who had previously worked as a sex worker, has today received a guilty verdict for the charge of grievous bodily harm in relation to the transmission of HIV to her ex-partner. CJ, a trans woman, has been remanded in a male prison until...
Federal Budget: Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients Costly and Pointless, 10 May 2017, joint media release with AIVL, AFAO, NAPWHA and Scarlet Alliance
The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL), Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA) and the Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association have warned that drug testing...
Sex Workers Applaud SA Select Committee Report on Decriminalisation of Sex Work Bill, joint media release with SIN and Scarlet Alliance
The South Australian Sex Industry Network (SIN) and Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association are today celebrating the decision of the South Australian Select Committee of the Legislative Council, to recommend the passing of the Statutes Amendment...
Sex Workers Alarmed by Government Funding Decision, 20 December 2016, joint media release with Scarlet Alliance and Vixen Collective
Vixen Collective (Victoria’s peer only sex worker organisation) and Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association are deeply concerned at the Andrew’s Labor Government’s misguided decision to grant $300,000 of funding to the organisation...
Australian Communities Unite to Condemn the Mass Murder of People Who Use Drugs in the Philippines, 13 October 2016, joint media release with AIVL, Scarlet Alliance, NAPWHA and AFAO
Since May 2016, it has been reported that over 3,700 people suspected of using and/or selling drugs have been murdered in the Philippines. These atrocities has been carried out with the explicit endorsement of Filipino President, Rodrigo Duterte: who has repeatedly...
Joint media release with AIVL and Scarlet Alliance: For Some Of Us, AIDS Is Not Over
Recent media reports have focussed on announcements made by researchers, clinicians and some community representatives declaring that “AIDS, as a national public health issue, is over.” While it’s true that significant achievements have been made in...
Salvation Army again exploits discrimination of sex workers for financial gain
The Salvation Army has once again perpetuated discrimination against sex workers in order to make money. This has happened too many times. In 2009, the Salvation Army capitalised on the discrimination of sex workers through a stigmatising promotion for their Red...