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Deeming defamation case shows media complicit in silencing women
Moira Deeming’s defamation action against Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has shone light on the injustice women are currently facing both in the Victorian Liberal Party and in the media.
The Equality Bill means inequality for NSW women
The NSW Parliament must protect women and girls and reject the Equality (LGBTQI+) Bill expected to be debated tomorrow.
Report on the various forms, causes and consequences of violence against women and girls in sports, by Ms Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls (September 2024)
To read the report, please follow this link: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/sr-vawg-ga79-report-auv_0.pdf
Qld Human Rights Commission vs Jasmine Sussex (9 September 2024)
Within as many months, the Australian court system has seen three cases in which women are defending our sex-based rights as they collide with the introduction of gender identity ideology: Tickle vs Giggle (with the Australian Human Rights Commission intervening on behalf of Tickle); Lesbian Action Group vs the AHRC, and now Qld Human Rights Commission vs Jasmine Sussex. The common denominator is use of Human Rights Commissions to penalise women for standing up for women only-spaces and rights, and for the welfare of children.
AF4WR supports each of these women in their personal efforts to defend the sex-based rights of all Australian women and the best interests of children. We know women will not stop fighting to challenge and overturn the amendments to the Australian Sex Discrimination Act that are allowing these ideological cases to be prosecuted. We urge all Australians to write to Prime Minister Albanese to tell him that they expect the Sex Discrimination Act to work as it was intended and to protect women’s sex-based rights without compromise.
To support Jasmine Sussex in the case against her please follow this link: https://www.hrla.org.au/jasmine-sussex-eappeal?s=04&fbclid=IwY2xjawFJQyxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU0x5FHWOgMM7ahku_TZbnHigH1PO5Zcu_2DrhNiqA5XaqVkFtjgTlvk2w_aem_Og1vqloZfPY4sPyrGX51qg
Statement on the decision of the Federal Court of Australia in the case of Roxanne Tickle v. Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd and Sally Grover
– Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, 4 September 2024.
Finally – some mainstream media reporting on issues that women have been raising for years (25 November 2023).
This article by Michael Bachelard, “Talking Trans: Adolescents, gender transition and the conversations we need to have” begins to present more balance than has been seen in Fairfax publications to date.
Read the full archived article here: https://archive.md/pFBoI
We recognise this article does not address the impact of gender identity ideology on women’s rights. If you want to add your voice to the discussion you can write to the Fairfax Editors via these email addresses: letters@theage.com.au or letters@smh.com.au.
