Scarlet Alliance, "Submission to Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, Reforming Licensing in NSW: Review of licence rationale and design, December 2012."

"Scarlet Alliance does not support the introduction of a licensing system in NSW for sex work owners/operators or for businesses or individuals. Experiences in other Australian states demonstrate that:  licensing of sex work is ineffective, expensive and unworkable;  licensing imposes unnecessary costs on businesses and community;  the costs of the licence exceed its benefits;  licensing involves high administrative costs, compliance costs, excessive fees and delay costs;  there is no clear rationale for government action or intervention;  there are more efficient regulatory alternatives; and  licensing is not best practice. The best opportunity to reduce red tape is to prevent a licensing system from being introduced in NSW."

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