A gay male sex worker and advocate for sex workers’ rights has won a discrimination case against two Australian financial service providers — an in doing so helped protect others in the industry from becoming victims of “debanking”. “Debanking” is when a bank or financial institution stops providing services likeContinue Reading
A sex worker has revealed how she has slept with countless married men but doesn’t consider what they do “cheating”. Sydney woman Katija Cortez is a former accountant who became a sex worker three years ago and said in thar time she has slept with many married men. The exactContinue Reading
An Australia-first Bill that would have criminalised men who buy sex but decriminalise the women who sell it has been knocked back by a single vote after an emotional late-night debate in state parliament. South Australia’s upper house voted 10-9 to reject the “Nordic model” reform to its prostitution lawsContinue Reading
The Seven West board, led by Kerry Stokes, has probed shock claims of cocaine and sex workers plaguing investigative program Spotlight, with questions raised over the extent of knowledge in the finance department and among Seven executives. News.com.au understands that news and current affairs boss Craig McPherson told the executivesContinue Reading
Ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach has dropped a new bomb on Channel 7 sending a concerns notice regarding comments purportedly made by a number of the network’s executives. The concerns notice names Seven chief executive James Warburton, Kerry Stokes’ longstanding right-hand man Bruce McWilliam and producer and blogger Robert McKnight, andContinue Reading
A brand new escort agency has just opened up in Australia that will change everything you thought you knew about sex work. The most common, albeit not necessarily correct, perception of an establishment where people pay for intimacy and intercourse is usually rather sordid. Think a large container of condomsContinue Reading
Justice Michael Lee has found that the “inescapable conclusion” was that law student Bruce Lehrmann leaked confidential court documents obtained during his criminal trial, including Brittany Higgins’ private text messages, to Seven’s Spotlight program. The leaking of the private contents of Ms Higgins’ phone, which she has previously described asContinue Reading
Bruce Lehrmann has lost his defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson, following the bombshell finding that he “raped” Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019. Justice Michael Lee handed down his judgement on Monday, finding the pair did have sexual intercourse in the office of Senator Linda ReynoldsContinue Reading
That was the succinct description from a senior Channel Seven figure of the weeks of turmoil that have rocked the network. On Wednesday, it emerged that Seven ordered two separate investigations into claims a small number of staffers at its top-rating breakfast show Sunrise had engaged in fraud. The SydneyContinue Reading
The state is seeking to slap heavy monitoring conditions on a serial sex offender – who was jailed over his involvement in the kidnapping, rape and murder of Janine Balding – upon his release from prison, a court has heard. Wayne Wilmot is due to be released from prison laterContinue Reading