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The Age |
28 April 2009: five women in a Supreme Court
case whom the crown alleges were "traded, possessed and used"
in a way that reduced them to slavery in Melbourne.
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The Age |
12 May 2009: claims from the Federal Police
and brothel owners that sex traffickers are using Melbourne's
legal brothels as a front for their trade. |
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The Age |
13 March 2009: The prison-brothel she describes
may sound like something from the slums of Bangkok or Mumbai,
but the reality is closer to home. Mae was trafficked to Melbourne
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Courier Mail |
23 December 2008: the first person in Australia
charged with people trafficking under new laws brought in two
years ago to clamp down on international sex slavery; pleaded
guilty in the Brisbane District Court to two counts of people
trafficking; |
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ABC Radio |
13 May 2008: How do you define slavery in
the 21st century? That's the question faced by the High Court
this week. Five Thai prostitutes whose passports and airline tickets
had been confiscated had to work off a $40,000 debt before they
received any wages. Is this a valid employment arrangement, or
modern-day slavery? |
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ABC Radio |
7 March 2008: Australian police and immigration
officials rescued 10 Korean women who were being forced to work
20-hour days in a Sydney brothel. Police say they were brought
here on lawful work visas. |
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Sydney Morning Herald |
21 November 2007: McIvor and Tanuchit, owners
of Marilyn's Adult Services, were each convicted of 16 offences
of possess and exercise ownership over a slave.
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Four Corners ABC Television |
April 2006: "Read the personal accounts
from those who took part in the documentary "Sex Slaves" |
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Georgina Costello & UTS Anti- Slavery Project |
January 2005: "What do Ashburton, North
Fitzroy and Kew have in common, apart from being relatively affluent
Melbourne suburbs? They are suburbs where foreign women have been
found locked up while paying debt bondage contracts by providing
unpaid sexual acts in Melbourne brothels." |
