{"id":1180,"date":"2006-12-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/2006\/12\/14\/news_item-2006-12-15-3818\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:27:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:27:25","slug":"news_item-2006-12-15-3818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/news_item-2006-12-15-3818\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sex workers lobby Parliament for legislation changes,&#8221; ABC Online, 9 Nov 06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <span>The Australian Sex Workers Association will be lobbying at a forum in Adelaide today for the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation for its members.  Around 70 sex workers will attend the conference at Parliament House.<\/span>                            <\/p>\n<p>Association manager Janelle Fawkes says South Australia is lagging behind other states in its treatment of sex workers and more needs to be done to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;d like to see anti-discrimination legislation, whether it&#8217;s preventing print-based media from overcharging sex workers as they do all over the country,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Or whether it&#8217;s from real estate agents or banks that knock back sex workers purely because of their chosen occupation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fawkes says she hopes the forum will also give the public a better understanding of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some of the stereotypes of course include the fact that sex workers have no choice, are in the industry because they can&#8217;t get another job,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And of course some of the people that we have here at our conference are university lecturers, have other professional jobs and do sex work part-time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Link to original article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Sex Workers Association will be lobbying at a forum in Adelaide today for the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation for its members. Around 70 sex workers will attend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pmpro_default_level":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-release","category-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}