Australian brothels and sexual slavery

Which would seem to imply that adopting the Italian system - falling in line with US policy - would make it more likely that people would play the system to get into Australia.

Quod (only a middle-aged male politician could possibly think) demonstrandum.

There are far easier ways than subjecting yourself to months or years of violation, disease and starvation to get into Australia by the back door. A pretty Chinese female unable to get an ordinary student visa could, for example, enrol as an external student at the Central Queensland University which - it has been alleged (see the Sydney Morning Herald, February 21, 2005) - is being used as a conduit into the Australian sex trade. The university’s Fiji campus, it seems, is none too fussy about the educational qualifications of those it enrols from overseas.

The proposal to follow Italy’s example would show ordinary decency for a small number of women who are at, or very near the bottom of, the sexual slime scale. We do not have official figures. As the Parliamentary Joint Committee pointed out, the numbers vary “from over 1,000 to a handful”. But, as Minister Ellison himself has also said, one is one too many.

In this respect, if no other, he should be prepared to go all the way with Condy.