Powerful speech in Australian Parliament to amend the Sex Discrimination Act - included words from Sall Grover

[FeralWoman]

A Private Member’s Bill to amend the Sex Discrimination Act was introduced in Australian Parliament by Alison Penfold MP. She gave a 10 minute speech and the last minute included words from Sall Grover. It was powerful. It was so refreshing to hear common sense about women’s rights, sex and gender being spoken about publicly without it being shut down.

Fuck Julia Gillard’s famous misogyny speech. She betrayed women by approving the 2013 amendments that took away women’s rights. Let’s replace it with this one.

Speech is here from 35 mins to 46 mins.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Tjfsc9JSxzU?si=A4KWIwHugqWHuX55

Link to the actual Bill and its amendments here:

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7479

How was it received?

Positively on Twitter. I didn’t see the 6pm news so I’m not sure how the media is portraying it.

There won’t be a vote on the Bill. It will up to the Prime Minister alone to accept it or reject it because it’s a Private Member’s Bill.

Here’s a video of just the speech from Twitter. It grates on me that Canavan has posted it and is the leader of the party that Penfold belongs to. Canavan is an arsehole. Sexist, racist pig and overall unlikeable man.

https://x.com/mattjcan/status/2058733574556397962?s=20

Here’s Sall herself speaking to the media at Parliament House. It must be satisfying for Sall to be able to have politicians hear what she has to say.

I hope that this sees changes made and women getting their rights back.

https://x.com/RachaelWongAus/status/2058886845929590917?s=20

It's all positive, one tiny step at a time but a step forward.

I hope so. I’ve been so disappointed and disgusted by the Giggle vs Tickle appeal decision that I haven’t been back to that thread since the decision was handed down.

I want our rights back.

Very promising development. If this goes through the. tickle’s case suddenly doesnt look so healthy in round 3?!

I know nothing about Australian the governmental system, I'm afraid. Why doesn't there have to be a vote? So one person can decide your new law (or not)?

Sorry, I think I just got it - the Bill is accepted or not by the PM, but for it to become law (if the Bill is accepted), it will need a vote?

Well done to whoever protested Julia Gillard at the Hay Festival with a massive “Destroyer of Women’s Rights” banner!

Report here: archive.is/Y1W4O

Well done to Allison Penfold. There is a photo of the House of Reps during her speech and it looks to me like the Labor side of the house was entirely empty. Was it? Has anyone else seen footage? If that's the case I can't forgive that, it is so disrespectful to the women they are supposed to represent and Labor will never get my vote again, ever.

@QldGCandproud As far as I can tell yes the other side is empty. Very disrespectful by Labor and any others who didn’t attend. BTW fellow Qlder here.

Nice to meet another Qlder @FeralWoman at least our Qld State Minister for women can define us.

Qld’ers unite!

I had read about this but never seen it to listen to.....

https://x.com/i/status/2059182216438309140

@impossibletoday OMG, WTAF?! She’s a fucking idiot. Women have no hope of having single sex rights with that clown in the job. Can’t stand Michaelia Cash but she was brilliant in that clip. Is that from today?

I watched this earlier. They have messed up the law so much that it appears that a TW can claim discrimination on everything that a woman can. It is quite obvious that this type of discrimination applies only to females so TM could claim and not TW.

@Justme56 Correct. The law here is fucked up. Julia Gillard deserves to be heckled at every single public event she’s at. She let this law amendment through. She’s never clarified that this wasn’t the intent of the amendment. She could have but she hasn’t. Instead she dodges the question and leaves the event.

Having had a think, what she is possibly inferring is discrimination by perception of sex. If a TW looked enough like a female they may be asked but realistically that comes down to people being able to hide their biological sex in the first place.

It is something Sal said straight after the last court case (not the verdict) I think.
(TIMs being protected against pregnancy discrimination)

Talking of Australia, here’s one bloke talking about 50% of new toilets being built as mixed sex design (this is best read in an Oz accent):

One builder told The Telegraph that the “bloody pointless” change “is the last thing this industry needs”.
“We’re trying to keep things simple, cheap, and functional and some clown from Canberra comes in with feel-good rubbish like this,” he said.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/serving-all-users-half-of-new-public-toilets-in-australia-could-become-gender-neutral/news-story/337269c9fe455cc1433589a1591b2e6f

@Keeptoiletssafe The toilet thing is ridiculous. Apparently the solution to not having enough toilets for women will be solved by providing less dedicated women-only toilets and instead having a bunch of them as unisex. Yuck.

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