Ending Violence Against Sex Workers

Today Abigail brought to attention Friday 17 December which is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

Abigail said: I move:

(1) That this House notes that Friday 17 December 2021 is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, a day which pays respect to sex workers impacted by marginalisation, victimisation and discrimination, and raises awareness for the urgent need to end violence against sex workers.

(2) That this House notes that, according to the Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, which is the national peak sex worker organisation in Australia:

(a) there is a distinct lack of research into the reported and widespread unreported incidents of violence against sex workers within as well as outside of their place of employment;

(b) this violence is linked to the stigmatisation and exploitation of sex workers and alienation from police services; and

(c) this violence is linked to transphobia, racism, stigma and criminalisation of drug use and xenophobia, and cannot be ended without the ongoing comprehensive combating of these issues.

(3) That this House calls on the Government to recognise the discrimination and marginalisation faced by sex workers in their place of employment and in all facets of society, and to work toward ending violence against sex workers through comprehensive and sustainable funding for frontline crisis, counselling and legal services.

The full transcript can be found on Hansard, here.

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NSW is missing out on tens of billions of dollars. By introducing a progressive coal royalty structure similar to the one in Queensland, we would have raised an extra $20 billion last year.

The NSW Government owns and controls, on behalf of the people of this state, the rights to the minerals and materials that naturally occur in NSW land.

Huge fossil fuel companies are only able to extract and sell these commodities with the consent of the State. It’s time they paid a fair price for that privilege.

The fossil fuel industry has made hundreds of billions of dollars out of their cosy relationship with governments. Granted permission to extract and sell coal, these large multinational fossil fuel corporations pay just over 7% in royalties back to the people of NSW – keeping the rest as mega-profits for themselves. These companies have a track record of taking more than their fair share and leaving communities suffering and stranded with poisoned groundwater, devastated landscapes and a stranded workforce when it suits their business models.

Globally, the hyper-inflation of fossil fuel prices driven by price-gouging opportunism and war profiteering from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered record windfall profits to these already obscenely wealthy corporations. In the last year, NSW coal exports totaled over $70 billion dollars, but the people of NSW will only see about 7 cents in every dollar, or about $6 billion dollars of that amount.

Rather than going toward schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, billions of dollars went into the pockets of multinational mining corporations. The Greens believe there should be more money for schools and hospitals and less for mining billionaires.

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