Australia’s current visa subclasses are complicated and hard to understand. This will make it harder for a person who speaks English as a second language to apply for the right visa. This increases sex workers’ vulnerability to trafficking. Australia’s visas are quite...
Publications Library
"Review of Employer Sanctions Legislation – Combating Illegal Work in Australia" June 2010
Accessing fair visas for migrant sex workers to enter Australia is difficult for sex workers. Lack of information translated into relevant languages is part of the problem, leading sex workers to opt for third party traffickers rather than come to Australia...
Scarlet Alliance "Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee; Trafficking in Women – Sexual Servitude" 2003
Scarlet Alliance believes there is a pervasive and unhelpful equation of the ‘trafficking’ of South East Asian sex workers to Australia with ‘sexual servitude’ and ‘slavery’. This simplistic reading of such complex issues has resulted in a limited understanding of the...
Scarlet Alliance "Submission on Proposed Trafficking Laws" 2004
This submission was written in response to the proposed amendments to the Australian Federal Criminal Code by the Attourney General's Office in September/October 2003. Authors include Janelle Fawkes, Elena Jeffreys, Maria McMahon and Jenni Gamble. Penny Saunders and...
"Submission on Mens Health" 2009
The current level of commonwealth, state and other funding addressing men’s health issues does not adequately serve male sex workers. Sex Worker services require funding in order to deliver services and peer education to male sex workers. Australian sex workers have a...
Scarlet Alliance "Submission to the Victorian Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee" Oct 2009
This submission urges against prosecution approaches to trafficking in Victoria, written by a working party of Scarlet Alliance volunteers. At least 0.5% of the migrant workforce globally experiences trafficking or slavery-like conditions. This is indisputable and...
"Better Planning NSW" Submission 2009
The Scarlet Alliance applauds the NSW government’s initiative to consider if aspects of the NSW planning system need reform to ensure the right balance in achieving sustainable social and environmental outcomes. We support any initiative that seeks to understand how...
VIXEN "National Human Rights Consultation Submission" 2009
Vixen is the Victorian Sex Industry Network. We are a network of sex workers who meet regularly to discuss and be proactive about issues affecting our lives. We aim to create a fun and sex worker safe space that celebrates our work, who we are and what we have in...
"National Human Rights Consultation Submission" 2009
As part of a national human rights consultation, Scarlet Alliance submitted, focussing on advertising, entrapment, mandatory testing, discrimination against people living with HIV, stigma, vilification in the media and discriminatory treatment by commercial and...
"NSW Advertising Submission" June 2009
"Submission to Consumer Affairs Victoria" June 2009
Scarlet Alliance recommends the decriminalisation of all private sex work, removing requirements to register with the Business Licensing Authority or lodge development approvals with their local council. Scarlet Alliance supports a reduction in all licensing costs and...
Crimson Coalition "Police Move On Powers Submission" Feb 2009
Crimson Coalition is very concerned about the way in which the current legislation is framed. We wonder why sex workers are singled out for mention in a separate clause of the legislation (s46[5]), above all other categories of persons in society who may be subjected...