Elena Jeffreys on whether the Left should support stricter regulation of the sex industry Published by Overland Journal, this article explores the problems that legalisation has created for sex workers and policy makers in Victoria.
Registration Is Discrimination By Lian, published in Play magazine (NT) in 2006
The Victorian Situation with Legalisation Sheranne Dobinson, Safe House Worker, Prostitutes’ Collective of Victoria. This paper questions the supposed improvements that Victorian workers in the sex industry are said to have gained by 'legalisation.’ In particular industrial rights, tax, human and civil rights have failed to be provided for workers and the Victorian model “should be viewed as a lesson in seriously defective policy making and how to avoid it.”
Unfinished Business Achieving effective regulation of the NSW Sex Industry. This joint paper by the Sex Worker Outreach Project and AIDS Council of NSW looks critically at the contradictions and barriers to effective regulation in NSW. Printed in February 2002 it documents the changes since 1995, the aims of the laws then and the work still left to be done.
Queensland Licensing Authority Annual Report 2002 In this report the Board are candid in their criticism of the Licensing Regime they are overseeing. In particular implementing overly restrictive laws has impacted their ability to achieve the desired outcomes of regulating the industry. A clear majority (perhaps up to 90%) of the industry choses to remain unlicensed in 2002. In 2011 they still only have about 25% compliance.
Prostitution Law Reform in Germany The oldest profession on its way to becoming a profession Dr Thomas Crofts, a senior lecturer at Murdoch Uni School of Law in WA has mapped the path to the legalisation of the sex industry in Germany. The political forces, policy pressure and subsequent effects of reform are all described briefly with good references. People in the sex industry can now legally be covered by health insurance at the normal rate and are able to pay into superannuation funds legally.