Steph Key’s new prostitution bill is even worse than last year: tell your MP today!

The Decriminalisation of Sex Work Bill was introduced by SA Labor MP Steph Key in the House of Assembly on 16 May 2013. It could be debated very soon.

• The bill would decriminalise the sex trade by repealing almost all SA prostitution laws.

• The bill has no restrictions of any kind on brothels, escort agencies or street prostitution.

• A pimp could legally offer any 18-year-old a job in a brothel, promising big dollars. Teens would have no idea of the consequences down the track.

• Brothels could legally operate next door to your family home. Children could live in home-brothels.

• Prostitutes could legally ply their trade on the street outside your home. Any control would be up to local councils – but they would lack police powers.

What can we do? Send a short letter or email to your lower house MP as well as Premier Jay Weatherill and Opposition Leader Steve Marshall (addresses overleaf), asking them to vote against the Decriminalisation of Sex Work Bill 2013.

Be sure to include your name and home address in all letters and emails. Include one or two points above or below, in your own words:

• Research shows that most prostitutes suffer mental ill-health, including post traumatic stress. Most take drugs (eg alcohol, cannabis, heroin, speed, cocaine) to dull their mental and physical pain. • In every Australian state that has decriminalised or legalised the sex trade there has been a boom in both legal and illegal brothels – and sex trafficking and slavery. It is “out of control” (The Age, 7/3/11; Sydney Morning Herald, 13/10/11). • There has been a rise in underage and street prostitution in New Zealand after decriminalisation in 2003 (New Zealand Herald, 19/5/10, 11/06/10). • Local councils in SA have already advised that regulations restricting the placement of brothels would be very difficult to enforce (The Advertiser, 14/5/12).

For more information, contact FamilyVoice Australia ph: 1300 365 965 e: [email protected] www.fava.org.au www.facebook.com/familyvoiceaustralia Email the SA lower house MP in your electorate:

Hon Michael [email protected] Mr Lee Odenwalder [email protected] Atkinson Ms Frances [email protected] Mr Adrian Pederick [email protected] Bedford Ms Zoe Bettison [email protected] Mr Don Pegler [email protected] Mr Leon Bignell [email protected] Mr Michael Pengilly [email protected] Hon Lyn Breuer [email protected] Mr Tony Piccolo [email protected] Mr Geoff Brock [email protected] Mr David Pisoni [email protected] Hon Paul Caica [email protected] Ms Grace Portolesi [email protected] Ms Vickie [email protected] Hon Jennifer Rankine [email protected] Chapman Dr Susan Close [email protected] Hon John Rau [email protected] Hon Patrick Conlon [email protected] Mrs Isobel Redmond [email protected] Hon Iain Evans [email protected] Ms Rachel Sanderson [email protected] Ms Chloe Fox [email protected] Mr Alan Sibbons [email protected] Mr John Gardner [email protected] Hon Jack Snelling [email protected] Mrs Robyn [email protected] Dr Bob Such [email protected] Geraghty Mr Mark [email protected] Ms Gay Thompson [email protected] Goldsworthy Mr Steven Griffiths [email protected] Mr Peter Treloar [email protected] Mr Martin [email protected] Mr Dan van Holst [email protected] Hamilton-Smith Pellekaan Hon John Hill [email protected] Mr Ivan Venning [email protected] Hon Tom Kenyon [email protected] Mrs Leesa Vlahos [email protected] Hon Steph Key [email protected] Hon Jay Weatherill [email protected] Hon Tom [email protected] Mr Tim Whetstone [email protected] Koutsantonis Mr Steven [email protected] Mr Mitch Williams [email protected] Marshall Dr Duncan [email protected] Hon Michael Wright [email protected] McFetridge Hon Michael [email protected] O'Brien

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Or write letters to your MPs addressed to Parliament House, Adelaide SA 5000.

Include your name and postal address, so MPs know that you are a genuine South Australian voter.