Government ‘broadly supportive’ as report recommends allowing for ads and scrapping of police powers
The QLRC also recommended thatfor public soliciting or street-based sex work, and said planning rules should allow services to operate away from industrial zones.
In Queensland, police can currently also pose as clients and entrap workers by pressuring them to offer blacklisted services.The attorney-general, Shannon Fentiman, said the government was “broadly supportive” of recommendations and supported decriminalising sex work. She confirmed this would mean abolishing the Prostitution Licensing Authority, which regulates the state’s 20 brothels.
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