Som det framgår foreslår Labour i Queensland nye lover for å "regulere"
prostitusjon. Det er interessant å sammenligne Australia og Sverige/Norge:
Alle er moderne velferdssamfunn (riktignok en del på retur p.g.a. den
markedsliberalistiske offensiv), med (tilnærmet) gratis skole, sjukehus,
etc. De har velutdannede befolkninger med forståelse for at det offentlige
har en viktig rolle å spille, og likestilling er på dagsorden i alle landa.
Men kvinnesynet er åpenbart noe forskjellig. Som dere ser har Australia
kommet dit som Kirsten Frigstad og PION m.fl. ønsker, nemlig å definere
prostitusjon som "fagarbeid", jfr. uttrykket "sex worker". Dette får slike
absurde utsalg som at lovforslaget også tar for seg lokalisering av horehus
som om dette var ordinær industri: "...recommend brothels be set up in
industrial areas..". Man ser for seg en rektangulær to-etasjes blokk med
kantine, varemottak, administrasjon - og med en større seksjon hvor selve
"produksjonen" foregår. Kanskje plassert mellom en galvaniseringsbedrift og
et lakkeringsverksted? Dette må være noe for Carl Ivar og co. i Oslo:
En blomstrende horehus-industri i Groruddalen!
Trond Andresen
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>New prostitution laws expected in Parliament
> Monday 21 June, 1999 (7:17am AEST)
>
> The Queensland Cabinet is expected to approve new
> prostitution laws today but they will not be implemented until
> July next year.
>
> The framework to go before Cabinet will recommend brothels
> be set up in industrial areas, with operators restricted to
> owning single establishments.
>
> Premier Peter Beattie says there will be further finetuning in
> consultation with sex workers, local government and police to
> ensure the Government gets it right.
>
> "Waiting another 12 months is not in my view an impediment,
> it is about getting the laws right, it is about getting the
> framework right, it's about getting the structure right, the
> checks and balances right, bearing in mind how corrupt the sex
> industry was in the 1980s," he said.
>
> He says the new regime will be strictly regulated and that
> could be done by a registration board, as recommended by the
> Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) in its 1991 report into
> prostitution.
>
> Such a board would include representativs from Queensland
> Health, the police, the CJC, local councils and the sex
> industry.
>
> It could ensure the laws are enforced, investigate complaints
> and promote the health and welfare of workers and their
> clients.
>
>
> Industry expansion
>
> Opposition police spokesman Mike Horan says the
> Government will be promoting the expansion of the sex
> industry by allowing brothels to operate in addition to solo
> workers.
>
> He says safeguards being proposed by the Premier will not
> stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and will not
> prevent criminals from operating in the industry.
>
> "Mr Beattie will be remembered as the Premier who didn't
> have the courage to say 'no' and the Premier who allowed
> prostitution to increase to a massive degree in Queensland and
> sold out the Queensland families who do not want this in their
> towns or their suburbs," Mr Horan said.