RhED - Resourcing Health & Education in the Victorian Sex Industry

17/12/2025

RhED staff will be taking a break!

All phone lines, emails and support services will not be operating during the closure period starting from Thursday 25th December 2025. Our services will resume on Monday 5th January 2026!

01/12/2025

11/11/2025

📞 We’re still here — just a little differently

RhED has updated the way you can get in touch with us — making communication simpler, fairer, and more consistent for everyone.

Our phone line now diverts to voicemail, where you can leave a message and a worker will call you back. All voicemails, texts, and emails are now managed through one central point, so we can make sure your enquiry is received and responded to appropriately.

You can contact RhED by:
• 📱 Calling 1800 458 752 and leaving a voicemail
• 💬 Texting 0400 674 217 our main phone number
• 📧 Emailing s*xworker@s*xworker.org.au

We aim to respond as soon as possible within 3 business days.
For more information about how RhED handles all incoming enquiries, visit our website:
👉 s*xworker.org.au/contact

If you need immediate help, please contact Lifeline (13 11 14) or see the crisis services listed on our website.

06/03/2025

🌈✨ RhED at ChillOut Festival 2025! ✨🌈

ChillOut is more than just a festival—it’s a celebration of pride, resilience, and community in the heart of regional Victoria! 🎉 As the biggest and longest-running Country Q***r Pride event in Australia, ChillOut has been bringing together the rural LGBTIQ+ community, artists, and allies for 25 years.

This Sunday, 9th March, RhED will be at ChillOut with a stall, and we’d love to see you there! 🏳️‍🌈💜 Come say hi, grab some of our iconic "S*x Work is Work" tote bags, stickers, and badges, or chat with our team about the supports available to s*x workers in regional Victoria.

Whether you’re here to party, connect, or learn more about s*x worker rights, we’re here for it! See you in Daylesford! 🎭💃

*xWorkIsWork

04/03/2025

Yesterday was International S*x Workers' Rights Day—a day to honour the resilience and advocacy of s*x workers worldwide.

This day commemorates the demonstration where 25,000 s*x workers gathered against the proposed shut-down of the 2001 Kolkata S*x Worker Freedom Festival, despite attempts to silence them. S*x workers mark this day across the globe and continue to fight for decriminalisation and labour rights.

Here in Victoria, most s*x workers are able to work in a decriminalised setting, however we are still lacking full decriminalisation for street-based s*x workers. Many s*x workers around Australia don't share the same rights, and decriminalisation is still needed in;
• Western Australia
• Tasmania
• South Australia
• ACT
Even when decriminalisation exists, stigma still limits access to rights and protections.

S*x workers are workers. S*x workers’ rights are human rights.
Learn more about why decriminalisation matters:
https://www.nswp.org/sites/default/files/sg_to_decriminalisation_prf05.pdf

16/01/2025

LET'S KICK OFF THE SUMMER SEASON WITH THE Midsumma Festival Carnival!!!! 🥳⛱🙉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

☀️🌈 Midsumma Carnival will be held on Sunday 19 January 2025, running from 11am to 9pm in the Alexandra Gardens, beside the Yarra River in Melbourne's CBD.

🤩⚡️RhED will be in full force heading the Pride in S*x Work stall. Come down and chat to one of our staff and pick up a goodie bag!! We will have all the fun merch like ♥️S*x Work is Work ♥️stickers, drink bottles, totes and badges. - FYI These go super fast so come early!!

17/12/2024

Today is International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers, a day of recognition & reflection; a marked moment where we can commemorate s*x worker lives lost to violence, & reflect on structures in society that condone or perpetuate s*x work stigma, discrimination & violence.

Pictures on slides are from the RhED and Prostitutes Collective of Victoria (PCV) archives.

16/12/2024

⚠️Mpox cases are on the rise among Vic based female s*x workers. You can find you local Mpox vaccine provider at https://betterhealth.vic.gov.au/mpox-immunisation-providers

You can find more information about Mpox on our factsheet for s*x workers, or on the Better Health Channel.
https://s*xworker.org.au/.../uploads/2024/10/MPOX-FAQs.pdf
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/mpox

03/12/2024

🙏As we approach the end of 2024, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to our community, stakeholders, partners, and funders for their support, which allows us to continue our work within the s*x work community. Above all, we thank our courageous clients, whose strength and resilience inspire us daily and make our work so deeply rewarding.

👯Our staff will be taking a well deserved break during the dates listed below.

📲During this time our hotline and emails will not be monitored. We will resume service on 02/01/2025

17/11/2024

Our Young Person’s Support Program is open for referrals! 😍

We welcome back our Young Person’s Worker – Sammy from maternity leave and welcome all new referrals to the program. You can self-refer or organisations can send client referrals to us via email or phone.

For more information, please call or text Sammy on 0408 793 341.

10/11/2024

👉Do you need support to make a report to police? Do you require legal assistance and support from professionals who understand s*x work and worker rights?

📲Please reach out to us for a confidential chat on 1800 458 752 or text us for a call back to 0400 674 217.

08/11/2024

🧡Our RhED team recently attended the Southern Homelessness Services Network, a vital event focused on collaborative efforts to end homelessness. This network acts as a bridge between the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) and service providers, working together to address emerging issues and trends that inform policy and strengthen the coordinated homelessness service system in the best interests of our clients.

🙌At the networking expo, RhED hosted a stall and received an overwhelming response from over 150 attendees representing external organisations that also support clients experiencing homelessness. We were thrilled to see how many practitioners were already familiar with RhED, and our resources were eagerly taken with the red umbrella badge being the most popular.

🏠Our staff took the opportunity to educate practitioners on the referral pathways to our program and highlighted the benefits of our holistic, wraparound support services.

🏘A key takeaway from the event was that we all have the opportunity to voice change and we encourage you to check out https://www.shsnetwork.online/help-end-homelessness to see how you can make a difference even if its small!

Pictured left to right: Sammy, Sarah & Alana