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Sex work decriminalised in Queensland after decades of campaigning
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The attorney general, Yvette D’Ath, who sponsored the bill, told parliament that “discrimination and stigma” were common because about 90% of sex workers were forced to operate outside the law.
The shadow attorney general, Tim Nicholls, said it was unclear how “the world’s oldest profession” would be regulated from a planning perspective, raising concerns it could prove a “nuisance” to neighbours.
Nicholls said the government ought to have considered submissions proposing the so-called Nordic model, which prohibits sex work but only punishes the client, not the employee.
The opposition MP Mark Robinson described the Nordic model as “best practice”, telling parliament that “it is only a matter of time that more effective laws will be passed across Australia”.
The Labor MP Chris Whiting said “nowhere else in Australia is going down that path”, and the Australian Christian Lobby had pushed it in the parliamentary committee inquiring into the bill, which he chaired.
The Greens MP Amy MacMahon said the reform was long past due; it was recommended in 1989 as part of the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption, she said.
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