{"id":1181,"date":"2007-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/2007\/01\/24\/news_item-2007-01-25-1323\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:27:22","slug":"news_item-2007-01-25-1323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/news_item-2007-01-25-1323\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Union outcry over calls for extra brothel regulatory powers&#8221; ABC Online 25 Jan 07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <span>The sex workers&#8217; union is rejecting calls for authorities to be given extra powers to regulate prostitution.<\/span>                            <\/p>\n<p>It has been revealed Melbourne councils have hired private investigators to try to shut down illegal brothels.<\/p>\n<p>The Municipal Association of Victoria says other agencies should be given more responsibilities to control the sex industry, so councils do not have to go to extreme lengths.<\/p>\n<p>But Janelle Fawkes from the Sex Workers Association says the industry is being unfairly targeted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The council has the same powers over the sex industry business as it does over others and we would think that was appropriate,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is no need for councils to have extra powers, or for an increase in powers for any of the bodies governing the Victorian sex industry.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Link to original article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sex workers&#8217; union is rejecting calls for authorities to be given extra powers to regulate prostitution. It has been revealed Melbourne councils have hired private investigators to try to [&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-1181","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\/1181"}],"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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}