{"id":1233,"date":"2013-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/2013\/05\/16\/news_item-2013-05-16-4605\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:38:49","slug":"news_item-2013-05-16-4605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/news_item-2013-05-16-4605\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Western Australian Sex Workers and supporters demand Decriminalisation&#8221; Event 1pm 18 May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <span>In a protest to be held outside Parliament House, Saturday May 18th at 1pm, Western Australian sex workers and their supporters are coming together to demand full decriminalisation of their work. &quot;We want the same work rights and protections as everybody else&quot; states local sex worker advocate Rebecca Davies.<\/span>                            <\/p>\n<p>Sex workers reject the 2011 Bill proposed by the Barnett government.<\/p>\n<p>The licensing model proposed under the current Bill, or any variation short of full decriminalisation would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Undermine sex workers health and safety<\/li>\n<li>Exclude sex workers from labour rights\/protections<\/li>\n<li>Perpetuate stigma &amp; increase risk for sex workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Barnett Government is aware that licensing is a high cost failure everywhere it has been implemented in Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Barnett Government needs to finally listen to the voices of sex workers and sex worker organisations, who are the key stakeholders in this discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers at this event include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giz Watson, MLC Member for North Metropolitan Region<\/li>\n<li>Mikayla Jay from <a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WAsexworkers'>People for Sex Worker Rights in WA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Laura Meanderer from <a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WAsexworkers'>People for Sex Worker Rights in WA<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Farida Iqbal from Socialist Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Jane Green from Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.scarletalliance.org.au\/library\/images\/media_natforum07'><\/img><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a protest to be held outside Parliament House, Saturday May 18th at 1pm, Western Australian sex workers and their supporters are coming together to demand full decriminalisation of their [&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-1233","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\/1233"}],"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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarletalliance.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}