Thursday 14 July 2011

Landmark case for the rights of sex workers in Victoria

In July 2011, a sex worker who worked in a Melbourne brothel engaged with WorkSafe Victoria to tkae action against her employer for putting her in an unsafe situation.

The Media coverage was pretty offensive.  Here's an article written by the Age's Julia Medew.  I know after reading it, the person the article was about was in tears.  Here's her article: 
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/prostitute-to-sue-brothel-over-gun-20110712-1hc7n.html



Of course I'm wasn't going to take that lying down and wanted to write about all of the things Julia over looked.  Here's was my response: 
http://www.sexparty.org.au/index.php/news/media-releases/1143-landmark-case-for-the-rights-of-sex-workers-in-victoria