Sex Industry Reform

The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE (15:17): By way of supplementary question, as the Minister for the Status of Women and the Minister for Employment, does she endorse a 17 or 18-year-old woman being enticed, if it becomes legal, to take up a career as a prostitute?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:18): What I do endorse is the right for adult women to make choices and decisions for themselves. If they choose to work as a sex worker, they have every right, just like any other worker, to have industrial protections and occupational health and safety protections, just as any other worker would. That is what I endorse.