news.com.au
From: AAP
November 18, 2009
A CANBERRA woman will front court today to face sex slave and trafficking charges.
Police will allege the woman, 42, also operated an illegal brothel.
The charges follow a raid by Australian Federal Police officers on premises in suburban Kambah last month. read more..
The Australian
From: AAP
November 04, 2009
A MAN and woman have been jailed over their roles in enslaving a Thai woman to work in Melbourne’s sex industry.
Kam Tin Ho, 40, and Sarisa Leech, 37, were last month found guilty by a Victorian Supreme Court jury of intentionally using a slave. Leech was also found guilty of intentionally possessing a slave.
The pair was charged over a scheme in which a Thai woman, known as KW, came to Australia to work as a prostitute. read more..
Trading Lives
"In a new country there will be
no slavery & hence no slaves."
Captain Arthur Phillip said this in 1787 before leaving England to become the 1st Governor of the new colony of Australia. Phillip landed at Sydney Cove in 1788 after an 8 month sea voyage.
ACRATH acknowledges and respects the Indigenous Peoples of Australia both past and present.
As caretakers of the land and custodians of the stories their culture has survived for thousands of years and is now recognised as the oldest living culture in the world.
