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Slavery - the sadistic trade

By Harry Throssell - posted Friday, 27 April 2007


According to The Coalition Against Trafficking of Women, 300 Thai women a year were trafficked into Australia during the 1990s and “indentured” by a large debt they had to work off before they could be freed, mostly in the sex industry. Australian recruiters also went to Russia to hire women for “table top dancing”.

The Courier-Mail ran a story in March 2006 about “Chantina” who, when her Thai grandmother became very sick, was desperate for money and applied for a kitchen job in the Australian hospitality industry.

On arrival she was told the contract conditions had changed and she would need to pay off a debt of $45,000 by working in a brothel six or seven days a week, regardless of sickness or other incapacity, until she’d seen 700 men.

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Suzanna Clarke wrote “Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery … Globally each year, two million young women begin work in the sex market and 700,000 of these have been trafficked. A 2003 Government issues paper put the illicit trade in Australia at one million dollars a week.”

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Harry Throssell originally trained in social work in UK, taught at the University of Queensland for a decade in the 1960s and 70s, and since then has worked as a journalist. His blog Journospeak, can be found here.

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