Abortion Access: A Postcode Lottery? - Townsville Community Forum

Join Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne for a free community forum on abortion access and reproductive health services across Australia, particularly in remote and regional areas.

Access to safe, legal abortion remains a postcode lottery in Australia, with different rules, costs and availability depending on where you live. Some people are having to travel for hours at significant expense to access this basic healthcare service.

Hear from experts about the current situation and what’s needed to fix access inequality. Ask questions, share stories, and join the campaign to make sure reproductive healthcare is available to everyone who needs it.

This is a FREE ticketed event hosted in Townsville. We understand that it can be confronting to discuss these issues in public, so you are also welcome to join the livestream from home.

You are also invited to join our pop-up stall in Townsville beforehand (3-5PM), for an opportunity to meet Senator Larissa Waters and Senator Penny Allman-Payne, to have a chat with your Greens Queensland Senators. More details here.

Breaking News: Larissa has just established a Senate inquiry into abortion access, read more here!

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Hosted by Senator Larissa Waters (Greens Federal Spokesperson for Women and Queensland Senator) and Senator Penny Allman-Payne, this event’s speakers include:

• Daile Kelleher is the CEO of Children by Choice, Queensland’s state-wide counselling, information and education service on all pregnancy options, including abortion, adoption and parenting. Children by Choice are leaders in advancing reproductive autonomy and access to compassionate abortion nationally, and led the campaign to decriminalise abortion in Queensland.

• Amy MacMahon is the Queensland Greens Spokesperson on Women and State MP for South Brisbane. She was elected off the back of a huge, grassroots campaign, and holds the Greens state portfolios for health, education, housing and disability services. She has a background in sociology, research, teaching and community engagement. Amy currently rents in Woolloongabba with her greyhound and housemate.

• Anna Walsh and Keesha Booth are the co-founders of Sexually Healthy Cities, a Townsville based organisation offering sex education workshops to deliver the crucial and robust sex education we all should have had - helping to form positive, respectful and pleasureable relationships. Their work is centred around a prevention model for domestic abuse and sexual assault, alongside advocacy around access to abortion care and essential healthcare.