Useful links
Government Agencies
Victorian Department of Health
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
National Classification Database (decides which images are rated G, PG, X18+)
Free Legal Help
Southside Justice (office in St Kilda)
Sex Worker Organisations
Scarlet Alliance (Australian Sex Worker Association)
New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective
Law Reform
Victorian Law Reform Commission
Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy Initiative
Politics
Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC)
Government
Business Licensing Authority
(Victorian government agency that regulates and licenses sex work)
Victorian Parliament
(has the power to reform Victoria’s sex work laws)
Legal Guides
(published in 2019 by the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission)
Legislation Online Bookshop
(purchase hard copy Victorian legislation, Acts, Regulations etc.)
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Last updated: 19 December 2022
Banking
Australian Banking Association
(represents 22 of the largest banks in Australia)
Australian Financial Complaints Authority
(makes determinations regarding complaints about banks)
Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman
(assists small businesses to resolve disputes with other businesses)
Courts
Magistrates’ Court of Victoria
(sex work offences heard here)
Sentencing Advisory Council
(Court outcome statistics for street sex work offences)
Tribunal
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
(Tribunal where brothels can contest licensing and council planning decisions)
Police
Sex Industry Coordination Unit (SICU), Victoria Police
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) deal with human trafficking in all industries
Workplace Relations
(Distinguishes between independent contractors and employees in employment law)
Tax
The Australian Taxation Office
(Provides information on GST responsibilities for the sex industry)
Sex Industry
EROS
(Australian association representing, among others, brothel and escort agency owners)
(An new online project exploring Australia’s ‘underground’ Adult retail industry, starting in 1969 and evolving until today)
Human Rights
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC)
VEOHRC Submission to Victoria’s Sex Work Review 2020
Amnesty International
(endorses the full decriminalisation of sex work)
The Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights
(part of Monash University)
(free legal help for people found guilty of historical homosexual offences)
Academic – Course Work
Graduate Certificate in Sex, Health and Society
(Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society offers this course via La Trobe University. Part time, four subjects over two semesters)