Women in NSW are currently subject to harassment and intimidation by self-declared “sidewalk counsellors” when attempting to access health services...
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Behaviour that intimidates, harasses, leads to fear or anxiety or distress should never be an acceptable occurrence in the lives of women or health...
Current laws require a very high bar of criminal behaviour to be reached before police officers can intervene in the type of acts committed by “sid...
No. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are rights that all modern democracies support and uphold, as we do in NSW. This bill does not interf...
Four Australian jurisdictions – Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT and the NT – have recently passed laws that introduce “safe access zones” around aborti...
The bill is short and very simple. It will create new offences by prohibiting certain behaviour within a radius of 150 metres of a reproductive hea...
Sign the open letter at www.womenneedsafeaccesszones.com to send a message to Members of Parliament that women need safe access zones for reproduct...
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