Commenting on the story: Metala returns to its Langhorne Creek home

I remember 62 years ago working as a kid at Stonyfell winery at Wattle Park. Individually numbered bottles of Metala were bottled there. Wish I’d bought a few! – Richard Bruggemann

I managed a wine shop some 43 years ago and I found an old price list (dated early 60s, it featured Penfolds Grange Hermitage and Stonyfell Metala and they were both the same price – under £5, I think.)

Haven’t times changed. Good luck to the new owners, I wish them well. – Neil Corston

Congratulations to the Adams family and I would love to see a cellar door one day. – Patrick Secker

Guy, what a fabulous outcome for you and your family and of course Brothers in Arms. True winemakers. Keep the faith and enjoy. – Robyn Trenerry

Excellent news! – Robert Warn

Commenting on the story: Sex work reform backers prepare for another campaign

As the SA Political Director of the Australian Christian Lobby which was mentioned in the InDaily article as follows:

“Sex Industry Decriminalisation Action Committee coordinator Georgia Thain said last year’s passage of contentious voluntary assisted dying and abortion legislation will give clean air to the next push for sex work decriminalisation.

“I think parliament was a bit overwhelmed by those string of all those social policy conscience votes,” Thain said.

“Things that we heard from MPs was that they were concerned because of the suite of conscience issues on social policy, they were worried about the Australian Christian Lobby putting in their resources to campaign against them”

I seek to correct the record.

The prostitution decriminalisation Bill which was defeated 24-19 in the House of Assembly in 2019, was defeated well before the votes on the abortion to birth or assisted suicide legislation. It was defeated about two and a half years before the state election in March of this year.

The reason it was defeated is not because MPs were concerned that the ACL would campaign against them. Rather it was that MPs heard evidence from women survivors of prostitution, who gave graphic accounts of the brutality of the trade and the of the treatment to which they were subjected by entitled men, who had paid for the use of their bodies.

Members also heard that rather than complete decriminalisation of prostitution, the model that most upheld the dignity of vulnerable women, was the Equality of Nordic Model of prostitution law reform which, while it decriminalises the selling of sex, criminalises the buying of sex and third party profiteering and provides meaningful exit strategies for vulnerable women.

The ACL has consistently called on the SA Parliament to enact such a model of prostitution law reform. – Christopher Brohier