There is some good news for Australian escorts in the state of Victoria. After many years of battle, Victorian escorts have won the argument on decriminalisation. Yes, Legislation to decriminalise sex work is about to go through the state parliament.
The consumer affairs minister, Melissa Horne, said the state government had accepted a recommendation made by the Reason Party MP Fiona Patten, who was commissioned by the Andrews government in 2019 to conduct a review into sex work.
Horne said the reform would bring Victoria into line with New South Wales, which decriminalised sex work in 1995, and the Northern Territory, and would make sex work safer.
“This is a really important reform that will bring into line the same rights and protection for sex workers as exist for any other worker in the state,” she said.
Dylan O’Hara, a spokesperson from the Vixen Collective, said it was a “huge day for Victorian sex workers”.