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A crowd of 750 people last night attended the Perth premiere screening of ‘Nefarious: Merchant of Souls’, directed by American abolitionist Benjamin Nolot. This hard-hitting documentary exposes the realities of the sex trade including human trafficking, and the exploitation and abuse that all women suffer in prostitution. Ten politicians from Perth were able to view Continue Reading

    Bronwen Healy is the founder of the Hope Foundation and is a self-published author of a book “Trophy of Grace” which accounts her life and rehabilitation from drug addiction and the sex industry. Click here to hear her interview with Nexus Church’s Ruth Limkin at the ACL Queensland Conference.

Title: Nefarious: Merchant of Souls – debut screening (Perth) Date & time: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 7pm Venue: Mount Pleasant Baptist Community College, 497 Marmion St., Booragoon Description: A few days ago I watched a preview screening of Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, a feature length documentary by Exodus Cry International that exposes the horrors Continue Reading

The Attorney General Christian Porter has released a draft prostitution bill for public comment.  If you would like to comment on the proposal please do so, however we are urging people to more importantly write to their local member. The Liberal Government has given members a conscience vote which means they are not required to Continue Reading

  Media Release For release: June 14, 2011 The Western Australia’s Attorney General’s draft prostitution bill will not keep prostitution out of suburbs but will allow for the expansion of the illegal industry as has been seen in other parts of Australia, Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) state director Michelle Pearse said today. “I question why Continue Reading

The ACL has given evidence at a prostitution inquiry in the ACT. ACT Director Nick Jensen and spokeswoman for women’s issues Michelle Pearse made headlines by giving evidence at the Legislative Assembly committee inquiry. They presented research to support the ACL’s stance that purchasing sex should be a crime in the ACT. Prostitution in the Continue Reading

In a welcome development for the welfare of women and children in particular, France may join other European countries in criminalising the purchase of sex. According to a Guardian news story, a group of French MPs have made the recommendation, saying 80 per cent of prostitutes in the country are victims of slavery and trafficking. Continue Reading

Prostitution, R18+ classification of games and the Tasmanian Surrogacy Bill were all topics the ACL commented in the media on in the past week. For a full list of mentions in the media, see below. . .

  “You can’t be used by multiple men day in and day out and think that you are actually empowered,” – former prostituted woman ‘Julie’, who worked underage in a Canberra legal brothel. ACL’s Australian Capital Territory Director Nick Jensen featured last night in an ABC 7:30 ACT story on brothel laws in Canberra. A Continue Reading

For release: Saturday April 2, 2011 Today’s report that the Tasmanian Labor Government’s Attorney General David Bartlett does not favour legal brothels because they increase demand for prostituted women and don’t protect the vulnerable shows political leaders are waking up to the failure of normalising the sex trade in other States. The Australian Christian Lobby’s Continue Reading