NIMBYS. Sweden and Street Sex Work
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22nd May 2013
Not in My Own Backyard" (NIMBY) is a phrase that is currently being used in the Manukau antisoliciting bill debate. But what does NIMBY mean, who uses it, and what relationship does it have to contemporary political concerns?
Auckland Council: Ignoring sound advice about street sex work
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16th May 2013
In the third article in this continuing series on Auckland street sex work, Asenati Lole-Taylor's proposed bill and Ministry of Justice advice are discussed.
Summary Offences Act 1988 NSW: Attacking Street Sex Workers?
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9th May 2013
The New South Wales Summary Offences Act 1988 is often advocated by New Zealand opponents of street sex work, but does this legislation actually work, or does it render vulnerable street sex workers more vulnerable?
Prostitution: A societal or religious issue or simply meeting a demand?
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7th May 2013
Diane Sparkes says there should be a full independent investigation, before bringing about such an ill thought out and transphobic bylaw.
Family First: Uncharitable Thoughts
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Christian Right pressure group Family First has been deregistered by New Zealand's Charities Commission.
Auckland Council's War Against Sex Workers
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3rd May 2013
"The Manukau City Council (Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places) Bill is a badly drafted, draconian, excessive and transphobic private member's bill. It must be defeated."
After Marriage Equality: Changing times
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Barring any effective referendum campaign against marriage equality from its opponents, the marriage and adoption equality debates are now over. What now for our communities?
Marriage Equality: VME Day
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20th April 2013
And so, New Zealand has become the thirteenth nation to recognise marriage equality, after Parliament voted on its third and final reading to pass the legislation (77-44). What happened and what happens now?
Referenda:Family First's Post-Materialist Delusion
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11th April 2013
Several overseas LGBT political commentators have discussed the relative restraint and civility of New Zealand's marriage equality debate with me, as well as the seeming irrelevance of the Christian Right to the whole debate.
Obituary: Margaret Thatcher (1926-2013)
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Margaret Thatcher was despised and loathed amongst many members of the British LGBT communities of the eighties and early nineties. What legacy has she left?
Marriage Equality: Referendum Blues?
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5th April 2013
With the Marriage Equality Bill now headed for its third reading and almost certain victory, what can its opponents do next? And will their referendum ploy succeed?
Final destination
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1st April 2013
And so, the Marriage Equality Bill has navigated past the Committee stage of the legislative process, before its third and final reading. Can anything stop it now?
Bob's Sydney Outing
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26th March 2013
Family First anti-gay activist Bob McCoskrie is heading across the Tasman in May, obviously not for Mardi Gras! No, McCoskrie is a participant in an international Christian Right networking event called the "World Congress of Families".
Defending adoption reforms
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Family First has signalled that it might use one of its tame MPs to move an amendment to cut the adoption reform section out of the Marriage Equality Bill.
Marriage Equality: Until The End?
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14th March 2013
And so, the Marriage Equality Bill passed its second reading (77-44)... so, what explains the Christian Right's unwillingness to admit defeat?
