Campaigns

On the campaign trail

This page will list the campaigns we are currently involved in which will include, but will not be limited to:

• councils
• media
• organisations (such as ACON/SWOP)
• Politicians/political issues
• Government Authorities
• protests we are attending and/or organising
• events like conferences and symposiums we are attending and/or speaking at

We’ll list the issues below as well as provide links to other pages on the site which give further detail on the campaign and which you’ll be able to comment on.

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New South Wales (NSW) Campaigns

Government
NSW ICAC Considers Improved Prevention of Corruption
In NSW the Government has been asked by the Independent Commission Against Corruption to consider improved prevention of corruption among council compliance officers in relation to sex work. Our group has drafted some suggestions of our own for the Government to consider on this issue, read below:

Submission to Department of Planning on Draft Guidelines for Sex Services Compliance Activities November 2009

NAUWU Submission Response to Council Compliance Flowchart 18th December 2009

NSW State Election 2011_Response to Media Articles re: Liberals Setting up a Licensing Authority
Two media articles were published in The Daily Telegraph on the 22.12.10 reporting the liberals will set up a licensing authority when elected in the NSW State Election of 2011. We have put links to the articles below:

http://nothing-about-us-without-us.com/nsw-coalition-vows-to-clean-up-brothels-the-daily-telegraph-22-12-10/

http://nothing-about-us-without-us.com/liberal-brothel-police-to-take-sleaze-out-of-sex-the-daily-telegraph-31-01-11/

Scarlet Alliance put out a media release about this issue and NAUWU in partnership with Scarlet Alliance publicly released the submission below. NAUWU recognises Scarlet Alliance and members of NAUWU quick response on such an important issue; we would also like to acknowledge the willingness and ability to work together as sex workers for sex workers.

Scarlet Alliance Media Release – in response to media articles above

Submission on Sex Industry Regulation in NSW
September, 2010

Scarlet Alliance Website NSW Laws

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Open Letter to NSW Liberal Party re: Regulatory Matters after 2011 State Election
The NSW Liberal Party has indicated in the lead up to the NSW State election 2011, that they will be looking at the issue of regulatory matters including imposing a licensing system on the NSW sex industry such as the ones that exist in Victoria and Queensland. Members of NAUWU worked together to write an open letter to the NSW Liberal Party in an effort to lobby and educate them on the experience of regulation in other States and how NSW has been more than successful at operating without a regulatory system in place. Please see our members open letter to the NSW Liberal Party at the link below:

Open letter to the NSW Liberal Party re: Regulatory matters

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Open letter sent to NSW Politicians and Director Generals of government departments 2nd August 2011
Below is a link to an open letter that was send to NSW politicians and Director Generals of Government Departments in response to concerns regarding the potential harms the introduction of a licensing regime will unleash on NSW sex workers and our clients.

Open letter sent to NSW Politicians and Director Generals of government departments 2nd August 2011

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Open Letter to NSW parliamentarians sent in the lead up to World AIDS Day 2011
As a further incentive to remind people of the pioneering work of Australian sex workers in the fight against AIDS. We are still advocating for sensible legislative responses to the sex industry. As our world renown best practice approach comes under increasing threat, we need to put increased pressure on the Government and all parliamentarians. We need them to respect the bi-partisan approach that led to the decriminalisation of the NSW sex industry in 1995.

Open Letter to NSW parliamentarians sent in the lead up to World AIDS Day 2011

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Letter to Premier of New South Wales, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Attorney General and Minister for Justice re: demanding a seat at the table for any NSW working party brothel licensing authority_ 2011
This letter was sent in response to an article written by Chris Seage in Crikey alledging there is a working party meeting that sex workers have not been invited to and therefore do not have a voice on. The working party was alledgly set up to establish a Brothel Licensing Authority (BLA) and to hand over the regulation of the NSW sex industry to the NSW Police. For the letter and further information on the article NAUWU are responding to, please see the page below:

NSW sex workers demand a seat at the table_NSW Government working party Brothel Licensing Authority

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Be Wise, Decriminalise: Letter writing campaign
The NSW sex industry is currently campaigning against proposed law reform to introduce regulation to the NSW sex industry. In NSW we currently operate in a decriminalised industry meaning we are treated the same way as any other industry or business.  We are campaigning for the right for NSW sex workers to continue to operate in a decriminalised industry.
http://nothing-about-us-without-us.com/be-wise-decriminalise-letter-writing-campaign/

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Letter from Glyde Health to NSW Premier, the Hon Barry O’Farrell and Minister for Health, Hon Jillian Skinner_In support of continued decriminalisation of the NSW sex industry
The following is a letter published with permission from our friends at Glyde Health – the people who really know the realities of safe sex in our industry for they make their living from selling the very products some of our detractors claim we don’t use!!
Glyde Health in support of continued decriminalisation of NSW sex industry_2011

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Council
North Sydney Council
NAUWU is lobbying North Sydney Council because it now prohibits home occupation sex services in all zones under their new draft Local Environmental Plan. This means in North Sydney home occupation sex services (private workers who work from home) are PROHIBITED in all ZONES. Unlike Marrickville Council who have actually listed them as prohibited, North Sydney Council has effectively prohibited them by making no provision to allow them anywhere.  They simply don’t exist beyond a definition. For more information including what NAUWU is doing and what you can do, please see page below:

http://nothing-about-us-without-us.com/north-sydney-council-prohibits-home-occupation-sex-services-in-all-zones-under-the-new-draft-lep/

City of Sydney Council
The City of Sydney Council have put forward their draft Sydney Local Environmental Plan (SLEP) 2011 for public exhibition and public comment. The link below is the submission response put forward by Touching Base and Urban Realists.

http://nothing-about-us-without-us.com/submission-in-response-to-the-draft-sydney-local-environmental-plan-slep-2011/

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