The Western Australian town of Albany, the local LGBTQI+ community is working to fight off a group attempting to ban sexual education books in libraries.
The southern city has been left divided in the past few months as the Keeping Children Safe Albany pushes forward with its controversial agendas.
The group want to restrict access to two sex education books — Welcome to Sex by Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes, and Sex: A Book for Teens by Nikol Hasler — in libraries and are concerned about a “twerkshop” event held during the Albany Pride Festival.
Motions backing restrictions on books Welcome to Sex and Sex: A Book for Teens were passed at a meeting of electors in Albany, 420 kilometres south of Perth, on Monday.
The motions call for Welcome to Sex, by author Dr Melissa King and Yumi Stynes, to be restricted to people 16 and over, and Sex: A Book for Teens to be pulled from library shelves until assessed by the Australian Classification Board.
A motion calling for comic book series Sex Criminals to be removed from the library’s e-book collection was also passed, along with a motion calling for the city to “safeguard” public events.
The motions will be put forward at an ordinary meeting of the City of Albany council, where they will be assessed and voted on.
