{"id":1184,"date":"2006-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/2006\/10\/03\/news_item-2006-10-04-5954\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:27:20","slug":"news_item-2006-10-04-5954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/news_item-2006-10-04-5954\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sex workers call for task force consultation&#8221; 2nd October 2006, ABC News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <span>Sex workers call for task force consultationAustralia&#8217;s sex worker industry has cautiously welcomed moves to establish a joint government task force to help combat sex slavery and trafficking.<\/span>                            <\/p>\n<p>Sex workers call for task force consultationAustralia&#8217;s sex worker industry has cautiously welcomed moves to establish a joint government task force to help combat sex slavery and trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>In a verbal statement, the group representing the country&#8217;s sex industry community, Scarlet Alliance, has welcomed the formation of a joint committee between the Commonwealth and the states.<\/p>\n<p>But alliance manager Janelle Fawkes says the industry needs to be actively involved in the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We would be concerned about relying on another working party that does not include, in its terms of reference, the need to consult with the sex worker community,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is unlikely to produce evidence-based outcomes, without this consultation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She says the governments will otherwise have trouble finding reliable research to help them.<\/p>\n<p>Link to original story<\/p>\n<p><i>Updated 5th October 2006<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex workers call for task force consultationAustralia&#8217;s sex worker industry has cautiously welcomed moves to establish a joint government task force to help combat sex slavery and trafficking. Sex workers [&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-1184","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\/1184"}],"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=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}