Sex Work & Adult Services Forms
23 formsHealth & Peer Support
Scarlet Alliance is the national peak body for sex workers and sex worker organisations in Australia. It is the first...
SWOP NSW is the peer-led sex worker organisation in NSW. Free and confidential — sexual health information, free...
Vixen Collective is the peer-only sex worker organisation in Victoria — every member is a current or former sex worker....
Respect Inc is the peer-led sex worker organisation in Queensland. They run drop-ins across the state (Brisbane,...
SIN is the peer-led sex worker organisation in South Australia. SA is still partially criminalised — sex work itself is...
WA still criminalises sex work in practice under the Prostitution Act 2000 — multiple reform attempts have stalled....
Migrant Considerations
Sex work is a legal occupation in NSW, VIC, QLD, ACT, NT and (with limits) TAS. Working Holiday (417/462) and most...
Only MARA-registered migration agents can lawfully give immigration advice in Australia. If you need advice about how...
Operator Licensing
The ACT keeps a licensed model under the Prostitution Act 1992. If you want to run a commercial brothel or escort...
The Northern Territory regulates sex services businesses with three or more workers under the Sex Industry Act 2019. If...
The Criminal Code (Sex Work) Act 2024 decriminalised sex work in Queensland and is abolishing the Prostitution...
Planning Approvals
NSW has been fully decriminalised since 1995 — there is no sex industry licence. But sex services premises (brothels)...
Victoria fully decriminalised sex work on 1 December 2023. The licensing system was abolished and sex work premises are...
Post-2024 reform, Queensland sex work premises are regulated through standard local council planning under the Planning...
Tax & Business
Sex workers operating as sole traders need an ABN — the same as any other sole trader. Sex work income is taxable...
Once your sex work turnover crosses $75,000 a year, GST registration is compulsory. You add 10% to invoices, lodge a...
Worker Registration
Sole operators in the ACT — sex workers working alone from a private premises — must notify Access Canberra under the...
NT sole operators and small businesses with two or fewer sex workers do not need a suitability certificate under the...
Worker Rights
Since the Sex Work Decriminalisation Act 2022, sex work is a protected attribute under the Equal Opportunity Act 2010...
NSW added sex work as a protected attribute to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 in 2024. Discrimination against current...
Queensland, the ACT and Tasmania all protect sex work occupation under their state discrimination laws. Lodge a...
Sex workers in employment relationships — including agency workers, brothel employees, and outcall agency contractors...