Home Affairs Select Committee Report (2016)

The ECP welcomed the Home Affairs Select Committee recommendation in 2016 that the law be changed ” “so that soliciting [a charge used against street-based sex workers] is no longer an offence and so that brothel-keeping provisions allow sex workers to share premises”. Crucially the Committee also calls for a law to delete “previous convictions and cautions for prostitution from the record of sex workers”. 

Read the full submission here.

Press Release: Decriminalisation of sex workers recommended by Home Affairs Committee