SHE walks down the street beside a young man, their arms swinging so close they could be holding hands.

"I recently attended a briefing in NSW Parliament on human trafficking hosted by Ms Pru Goward MP, the former Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Commissioner." Pru has been involved with a n

WITHIN minutes of arriving at Sydney airport on September 6 last year, Chinese tourists Jenny and Susan had vanished.
 

THE managers of the unit block in Strathfield where a South Korean woman's body was found at the weekend had received reports of illegal sex workers operating inside the complex.

WHAT happened to Susie is any woman's worst nightmare: she was allegedly locked in a room and raped by several men during the course of a night. Six years later she still wakes up screaming. ...

AN organisation against sex trafficking is starting a community garden in Fitzroy for sex-industry workers, women who have left the industry and the victims of sex trafficking.

Project Respect co-ordinator Nina Vallins said the garden would bring together women from diverse cultures, backgrounds and ages from across Melbourne to grow fresh produce, cook meals, share recipes and produce a recipe book.

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Melbourne Leader, 5th November 2008

The Hon Bob Debus, Media release, 23rd October 2008

A GOLD Coast hairdresser forced two Thai women to work as prostitutes so he could collect the profits and repay $50,000 that he owed to loan sharks.

Keith William Dobie, 48, lured the two women to the Gold Coast with the promise of lucrative wages and luxury living conditions, the Southport District Court heard.

Instead, he paid them just $20 for entertaining up to five men a day.

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Melanie Pilling, Goldcoast.com.au, 21st October 2008

Brisbane Courier-Mail, 20th October 2008

PRIVATE investigators will no longer need to have sex with prostitutes to gather evidence against illegal brothels.

Under new laws before Parliament, the State Government has made it easier for local councils to prove an illegal brothel is operating in their area.

Previously, in a bizarre and controversial situation, private investigators had to pay and receive sexual services from prostitutes so local councils could prove to a court the existence of an illegal brothel.

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