Julie Bates AO

Julie is a sex worker rights activist and law reform lobbyist providing specialist planning advice and research on impacts of draconian responses to sex work.

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

Don't embarrass yourself any long South Australia ..you were once a world leader in suffrage, gay rights and many other human rights.... do the right thing and protect and respect all people in your State and decriminalise sex work NOW....

[EMILY's List Aus @EMILYsListAus]

SA's sex work laws are the most punitive in Aus & have not changed in 50 years. Join Julie Bates AO & Dame Catherine Healey at the "Dames of Decriminalisation" event in Adelaide on 28th March. Tickets: https://t.co/wOGieQubK0 #decriminalisation #sexwork @sexindustrynetw @SidacC

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

Creative and Experiential Therapies Belong in the NDIS https://t.co/5k6SVPVHT8 via @ChangeAUS

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@JoJoFromJerz How anyone let alone women can vote for this vile misogynist is beyond me.

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@DoseOfDemocracy Vile and disgusting, how could anyone with an ounce of decency, not to mention intelligence, vote for this man.

[Daily Dose of Democracy @DoseOfDemocracy]

Trump has spent decades trashing minorities, so what's the big deal if a comedian shits all over Puerto Rico to get the MAGA blood flowing, right? Right? Or maybe we should ask the 470,000 Puerto Ricans living in Pennsylvania?
https://t.co/3piPMqMFsL

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@knitnannasSYD Hope to see many of you there on Monday night 4.50 on town hall steps . lets take up all the seats in the chamber as a reminder that we vote too and an election is looming

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@eekiemout Hope to see many of you on Monday night, might be the last effort to get Joy home in the foreseeable future. Meet at sydney town hall 4.50 take up all the seats in the public gallery as a reminder to our detractors that we vote too and an election is coming

[Eurydice Aroney @eekiemout]

Sydney sex workers and friends please enlarge our little crowd on Monday at our 3rd City Council meeting in support of “Joy”.

“Joy” (see 🧵) was removed “for her own safety” in the 1990’s.

@JulieBates12 tracked her down and we want her back. This time in bronze…

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@knitnannasSYD A heartening moment, after council allowed an objector to go on and on way past allocated 3 minutes that I adhered to, a staffer came out, apologized saying Joy should never have been removed in the first place.Clearly he was a friend of Dorothy and Joy.

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@knitnannasSYD Gave it my/our best shot. The return of Joy has been a work in progress for some time - let's hope next Monday night's council meeting will give the green light to Joy's restoration and return to her pedestal in East Sydney...what a party we will throw.

[Eurydice Aroney @eekiemout]

🧶👵 for sex worker rights!

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@MarshBrentnall @OfficialKamahl Kamahl is doing what we would like to see a lot more people doing - owning up to ignorance, getting to the truth of the matter and Kamahl has done this in a very public manner that needs to be acknowledged and congratulated...a role model for others

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@OfficialKamahl The best advice is to focus on those that are kind and considerate and respectful.

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@OfficialKamahl @mrpford I think people who know something of your struggles over these 70 or so years know that you understand what it means to be marginalised as indigenous peoples are and have been since colonisation. Much love and respect to you xx

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

@OfficialKamahl Good on you Kamahl...I think you know something of hatred and discrimination in your life and in your career..good to see someone of your standing admitting the error of your ways through reading about indigenous history and asking questions...why can't more people do that.

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

Very honored to be included in a little history on sex work and politics of sex work in Darlinghurst Sydney from late 70 Red Light Green Light https://t.co/1dSAcJSgtN

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

Getting closer to our goal but still need more (statue of) Joy fans to sign on to our petition to ensure she is returned to her home in East Sydney. Please sign if you haven't already and share link to the petition https://t.co/t6SbG1JBap.

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

Getting closer to our goal but still need more (statue of) Joy fans to sign on to our petition to ensure she is returned to her home in East Sydney. Please sign if you haven't already and share link to the petition https://t.co/t6SbG1JBap.

[Daily Dose of Democracy @DoseOfDemocracy]

During his three disastrous decades on the high court, perhaps the most corrupt justice in US history has enjoyed steady access to a lifestyle most Americans can only imagine.
https://t.co/K18oU3Fw8I

[Julie Bates AO @JulieBates12]

I just signed a petition to bring back Joy: Do you remember Joy? . Sign here: https://t.co/k42BMXZ19K