Publications Library
Crimson Coalition "Cover Letter, Queensland Submission to SWAN Review" May 2008
Crimson Coalition is an unfunded network of Queensland sex workers from all sectors of the sex industry. Since forming as SSPAN (Sexual Service Providers’ Advocacy Network) in June 2004 we have consulted with a range of government and non-government organisations...
Scarlet Alliance "Cover Letter, Queensland Submission to SWAN Review" May 2008
As outlined in the 5th National Strategy on HIV/AIDS , the National STI Strategy and identified within the Queensland HIV, Hepatitis C and Sexually Transmissible Infection Strategy , the involvement of affected communities in health responses to HIV and STIs is vital...
Scarlet Alliance Best Practices Working Party "Scarlet Alliance Template for Member organisations and Projects. Affirmative action in employment – past and current sex workers" October 2006
This policy is framed within the context of the World Charter for Prostitutes rights, and Ottowa Charter of Health Promotion. In particular, the policy recognises the sex worker’s right to: protection from discrimination, education, representation, privacy, work,...
Forrest, Candi "Sex Worker Services in Queensland, Data Analysis" March 2008
The following sets out comments about the methodology of the Scarlet Alliance online survey: Sex Worker Services in Queensland (2007-2008) and an analysis of the data collected. Tables are set out which represent the frequencies at which concepts arose in the data....
PONGHO "Recommendations to Queensland Sex Worker Services Review" July 2007
A meeting of PONGHO members has agreed that recommendations regarding the impending Review of sex worker services in Queensland be made to Communicable Diseases Branch of Queensland Health. The PONGHO recommendations are: 1. A reference group, including sex worker...
"The Great Divide: Views on Sex Work" Mark Pendleton and Elena Jeffreys Overland Journal, 190, 08, pg 94
Feminists have long debated how gender, sexuality and labour are implicated in women’s oppression. While virtually all have seen these as core questions, how to respond politically has been a matter of much debate. Opinions on the exchange of sexual services for money...
"Statement 08" International Sex Worker Harm Reduction Caucus 08
The International Sex Worker Harm Reduction Caucus is a working group of sex workers and sex worker rights advocates who are committed to increasing the participation of sex workers and their organizations in discussions of harm reduction at the international level....
Rams "Aims, Objectives & Demands" 1992
Toy Boy Times is the magazine for the Rights of All Male Sex Workers (RAMS) This is a once-off publication from a Sydney-based advocacy group. Overview of the Aims, Objectives and Demands of this group.
"Briefing Paper on Mandatory Testing" 2007
This briefing paper was presented by Scarlet Alliance to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on AIDS, Sexual Health and Hepatitis (MACASHH), HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmissible Infections Sub-Committee (HASTI) Sub-Committee, in July 2007, and to the Blood Borne Viruses...
"Submission to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board: 3 Pillars" June 07
The “Three Pillars” is a new approach to sex work within the UNAIDS, discussed at the 20th meeting of the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB), Geneva, Switzerland, 25-27 June 2007. This submission is from Scarlet Alliance, The Australian Sex Workers Association. The...
WA Gov "Prostitution Law Reform Working Group" 07
In late 2006 the West Australian Attorney General, Jim McGinty, announced that the sex industry laws would be changed. He formed a working party, including Giz Watson Greens MLC, Sue Ellery Labor MLC, Lisa Bastain of the WA Health Department, Kim Porter of the WA...