Along with the rigorous historical scholarship which is her trademark WhoresfYore regularly delights her followers with images of sex workers at work and play across the centuries. But in Amnesty International adopted decriminalisation of sex work as is in the case NSW as supported policy. In making their announcement, Amnesty joined human rights bodies like UNAIDS, the venerable medical journal The Lancet, the WHO and over sex worker rights organisations across the world who maintain that decriminalisation of sex work best protects workers and their families from violence and discrimination.
But despite this consensus, there are only two countries in the world, New Zealand and Australia that have adopted and sustained this approach. In following years, a series of laws governing sex work were repealed and enacted in response to campaigns by police and residents who resented the consequences of the reforms.
Both conservative and Labor state governments played a role as they rode the law and order platform in their election cycles. The partial decriminalisation that had already occurred enabled sex workers to work with government in preventing the virus from spreading into the sex work community.
During this period sex workers and their organizations also lobbied government and produced unprecedented research that informed and influenced reform.
They exposed the police corruption that finally forced the state government to enact the decriminalisation of brothels in Problems persist for sex workers with some councils, who adopt strict regulatory controls that make it difficult for sex workers.
