Tasmania’s Mona to challenge decision to let men into ladies-only art lounge

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Artist Kirsha Kaechele said they needed to fight for ‘the right to make some men uncomfortable’

Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) will appeal an anti-discrimination decision that ordered the museum to allow men entry to its women-only Ladies Lounge.

Moorilla Estate Pty Ltd, the company owned by Mona founder and owner David Walsh, was ordered by Tasmania’s civil and administrative tribunal on 19 March to “cease refusing entry to the exhibit known as the Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art by persons who do not identify as ladies”.

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