Tuesday, 10 September 2019

 Mr LIMBRICK (South Eastern Metropolitan) (13:31): I rise to point out the disgraceful discrimination by some banks towards sex workers. A number of banks and financial entities refuse to provide services to anyone involved in sex work, even someone who, for example, works part-time selling adult products. There have been cases recently where sex workers have received a letter from their bank notifying them they need to look elsewhere for banking services, as their accounts will be closed. I condemn these policies, which effectively amount to corporate slut-shaming. It is amazing to think that people in the banking industry think they have any moral high ground in this regard. I am reliably informed by good people that the absolute worst hypocrites are NAB, who simultaneously claim all kinds of virtues in their human rights, diversity and inclusion policies while treating sex workers like lesser human beings. I will continue to publicly shame NAB until they change this disgraceful policy.