McGinty's Prostitution Act - modelled on the NZ Act?
News today from the bush that new National MLC Wendy Duncan will support McGinty's Prostitution Bill. Nationals had previous opposed the legislation.
The Desert Rat smells a vote preference deal in the wind. The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) should investigate. It is a lay down misere that this is a bribe for ALP preference. All this political horsetrading is how politics functions unless you want to work through lugubrious and incompetent institutions such as the CCC. If Burke and Grill were involved in this just as they were in the previously unresolved settlement of the Finance Brokers scandal, the CCC would be deliriously swarming like wasps.
Most legislation of this type exacerbates the problem, as behaviour shifts or changes to accommodate and exploit new laws.
New Zealand's new prostitution laws are an example.
Mamatere the founder of a sex-worker support group says that older girls in Auckland are going home hungry and forced to live off Salvation Army food parcels.
She says in an article in a New Zealand newspaper that the number of underage prostitutes is rising because of the Prostitution Reform Act. "The act has taken police resources off the street and has therefore sent the message to pimps and gangs that there are opportunities to get away with things," she says.
Underage prostitutes don’t dress up in high-heels, fishnet stockings and miniskirts, she says. The girls wear their normal clothing but punters know they are working because they frequent red-light areas after midnight.
The Desert Rat highlighted here that McGinty's had an obsession with legislation - as well as Burke.
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