Women fight back in Australia

We've had enough,

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Earlier today I saw a Note posted of Nicole Mowbray speaking at a recent WDI webinar, where she reported on the LAG actions in Melbourne. As I couldn’t find it later, and believe that the world needs to be kept up-to-date with the shocking weakening of protections for women and girls in Australia, I am re-posting it here Just click on her image below and select ‘Open Link’.

It doesn’t matter where in the world a woman lives, we need to be vigilant and prepared to take action.

The LAG website advises“the appeal to the Federal Court will be heard in Febuary 2026 before a single justice rather than the full bench. We believe that the hearing has been pushed back so as to await the outcome of the Tickle v Giggle case, which will have a bearing on our case.”

Australian women are not sitting passively by while men in wigs, legislative chambers and news media ponder/ignore our fate.

The 2013 amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act were slipped through our Federal Parliamament, ostensibly to add Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status. But the reality has been that sexual orientation has become meaninglessly defined by gender, sex is no longer defined, gender identity has a definition completely unmoored from objective reality (‘the gender-related identity, appearance or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of a person (whether by way of medical intervention or not), with or without regard to the person’s designated sex at birth’), and adjudicaton of discrimination against a person’s gender identity trumps any sex-based discrimination, as the Tickle v Giggle case has been further revealing.

And as the LAG action clearly showed, their application to hold a lesbian only event at the Melbourne Pride Centre was rejected by the Centre (even though the Centre had allowed ‘trans only’ functions) and rejected by the AHRC (Australian Human Rights Commission) and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal because it ‘discriminated’ against trans identified heterosexual men who identify as lesbians. And these decisions followed a similar AHRC rejection of Jessica Hoyle’s 2021 application for exemption for a lesbian only event in Tasmania.

We are organising to stop the misogyny marching on over us. It has to stop.

If you want to help or find out more, contact any or all of the following:

AAWAA (Affiliation of Australian Women's Advocacy Alliances)

AF4WR (Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights)

CoAL (Coalition of Activist Lesbians)

WRNA (Womens Rights NetworkAustralia)

See our recent Shadow Report to the UN, which sets out the growing threat to women’s rights and sex-based protections in Australia.

See also our recent submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s review of surrogacy laws. We do not support surrogacy in any form because it objectifies and exploits women and our bodies.