Tag Archives: prostitution

For release: 31st March 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby said a report in today’s Melbourne Age revealing human trafficking in legal brothels, is further proofthat attempts to make prostitution safe through regulation have failed. ACL’s human trafficking spokeswoman Michelle Pearse said she is not surprised by the news that underage women are working in Victoria Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE For release: 7th of March, 2011 With Parliament resuming tomorrow, the Australian Christian Lobby has called on Parliamentarians not to waste valuable time on Greens’ inspired radical social legislation such as euthanasia which has already been considered and rejected. ACL’s Tasmanian State Director Mark Brown said there were important issues facing the State Continue Reading

The ACT Government is asking for submissions into the prostitution industry after the death of a 17-year-old girl, found overdosed in a Canberra brothel. The Legislative Assembly is currently taking submissions until the end of March, and will then hold hearings into what is happening in the sex industry in Canberra. The Australian Christian Lobby Continue Reading

Recently proposed prostitution law reform in WA will see women continue to be ‘legally exploited’ in ‘tolerated zones’. Tolerated zones should not be tolerated because prostitution is exploitation of women . . . everywhere. Last week, WA Attorney-General Christian Porter proposed plans to ban prostitution from residential areas and limit brothels to a small number Continue Reading

Media Release Newly proposed prostitution reforms announced by the Attorney General Christian Porter do not go far enough in addressing community safety, according to the Australian Christian Lobby’s WA Director Michelle Pearse.

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today called on the NSW Government to rethink its failed brothel laws with the aim of ending the exploitation of women in the sex trade and protecting the amenity and character of local communities. ACL’s spokesperson on women’s issues, Michelle Pearse, said newly released information from the Government Continue Reading

Despite the abject failure of prostitution legalisation and regulation across Australia, the South Australian parliament will next year consider following the flawed ‘lead’ of the eastern states down the path of legitimising in law the exploitation of vulnerable women. According to a media report this week, Labor MP and ‘sex worker crusader’ Steph Key has Continue Reading

Amid more tragic news about underage girls being forced into prostitution comes a ray of hope this week, with Parramatta City Council deciding to defy the NSW Government by voting to ban all brothels and sex-related services as an acceptable land use. ACL is urging all other Australian councils to follow their lead – click Continue Reading

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated Parramatta City Council for voting to ban all brothels and sex-related services as an acceptable land use and urged all other Australian councils to follow their lead. ACL’s spokesperson on women’s issues, Michelle Pearse, said Parramatta City Council had taken a clear stand in favour of the best Continue Reading

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today voiced concerns that genuine solutions to stop child prostitution in Tasmania would be ‘swept under the carpet’ following the Government’s decision not to re-appoint Paul Mason as Children’s Commissioner when his term expires this Friday. ACL Tasmanian Director Mark Brown said that Mr Mason had made a number of Continue Reading