Sydney, July 28 (IANS) A woman has been charged with sending her 16-year-old daughter to work as a prostitute at a brothel in this Australian city. The school-going teenager ended up providing services to over 18 clients in 13 hours.
The teenager was taken by her mother to Liaisons Executive Retreat, a brothel in the eastern inner-city suburb of Edgecliff, the Wollongong District Court was told Tuesday.
She allegedly provided services to more than 18 clients over period of 13 hours. Working under the name of ‘Layla’, she charged up to $330 an hour.

Though the teenager was distressed by her first experience at the brothel, she had gone back there thrice as she did not want to ‘disappoint’ her mother.

The woman has pleaded not guilty to the charge of child prostitution.

See the full article from “Calcutta Tube (blog)”

Sex slaver pleads guilty
Updated: 15:19, Thursday July 29, 2010
A woman has pleaded guilty to illegally bringing 11 Thai women to Sydney to work as prostitutes.
The 48-year-old woman .. who cannot be named .. has also pleaded guilty to immigration offences related to the charge.
The Sydney District Court has heard the defendant .. originally from Thailand .. charged each woman 53 thousand dollars to come to Australia .. between 2005 and 2008.
She paid a Thai agent 20 thousand dollars to supply the women .. who then paid off their debt by working as prostitutes.
The woman allegedly decided to start the business after years of working as a prostitute in Sydney.
She claims the women were aware of the nature of the work.
The hearing continues.

See the full article from “Sky News Australia”

Harry Hardy … lives in the Waterloo towers. Photo: Jon Reid
ON A clear day Harry Hardy can see from the Blue Mountains to Botany Bay from his 28th-floor apartment in the public housing estate in Waterloo.
But in his 10 years living in the estate known to many as the ‘’suicide towers”, the pensioner has to put up with a lot for his room with a view.
”We had something like four drug sellers in the building,” he said. ”Prostitutes used to come in the front door.”
In an attempt to overhaul the problems of security and alienation in the six grey towers, the state government will begin a pilot program, placing concierge desks, security gates, maintenance and new security services in each tower, all to be staffed by trained social housing tenants.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”

Melbourne, July 28 (ANI): A mother has been charged with sending her 16 year-old-daughter to work as a prostitute at a brothel in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

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Cutting through: Tony Abbott announcing his company tax cut policy at Sydney’s Intercontinental Hotel

12.04 pm: CPI numbers sliced and diced geographically. The eight capital cities had a headline inflation rate of 3.1 per cent. Looking city by city this ranged from a high of 3.5 per cent in the mining boom capital of Perth, to 3.1 and 2.9 per cent respectively in Melbourne and Sydney, to a low of 2.3 per cent in the nation’s capital of Canberra.

10.45am: Tony Abbott is soon to give a press conference at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Sydney, flanked by treasury spokesman Joe Hockey and small business spokesman Bruce Billson.

8.25am: Tony Abbott’s just been in Alan Jones in Sydney, saying that obviously someone in government is leaking against Gillard.

On the welfare point, Tony Abbott addressed the Sydney Institute last night and announced his intention to extend welfare quarantining. At the moment it is used in certain Northern Territory communities but he would like to roll it out further. We will no doubt get more detail on that today.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”

Woman charged with sending daughter to work in brothel
July 28th, 2010 – 1:08 pm ICT

Sydney, July 28 (IANS) A woman has been charged with sending her 16-year-old daughter to work as a prostitute at a brothel in this Australian city. The school-going teenager ended up providing services to over 18 clients in 13 hours.
The teenager was taken by her mother to Liaisons Executive Retreat, a brothel in the eastern inner-city suburb of Edgecliff, the Wollongong District Court was told Tuesday.

Though the teenager was distressed by her first experience at the brothel, she had gone back there thrice as she did not want to “disappoint” her mother.

The woman has pleaded not guilty to the charge of child prostitution.

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Included in the auction are books so rare the only other known copies are held by public libraries. One of these, Charles Pickering’s 1870 compilation of photographs of Sydney buildings, comes with a cool $30,000 to $40,000 estimate. Several others are valued at above the $20,000 mark.

A feature of this book is the coloured aquatint view of Port Jackson and Sydney, along with four other aquatint plates and a folding coloured map. The upper estimate is $25,000.

Lot 160 is Thomas Shepherd’s bound copy of Lectures on the Horticulture of New South Wales, as delivered at the Mechanics’ School of Arts in Sydney. Published in 1835, this is considered the first Australian gardening book but the main selling point in this case is that it comes from the personal library of explorer Charles Sturt, with his stamp at the head of the title, then of John Ridley, the inventor of the stripper harvesting machine.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”

THE corporate regulator has accused Sydney businessman Andrew Sigalla of breaching court orders that froze his assets by using his credit card to pay for ”what are euphemistically called female models or escorts” and for betting with Tabcorp.
The freezing orders were obtained by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in September to prevent Mr Sigalla dissipating funds while ASIC investigated his conduct as executive chairman of the listed TZ Ltd from April 2004 to June 2009.

ASIC laid 43 charges of contempt of court and Mr Sigalla challenged the validity of notices the regulator sent to banks, credit card issuers, four escort services and gaming company Tabcorp.
Justice White gave mixed rulings on the admissibility of evidence relating to 25 charges of contempt over payments to escort agencies ranging from $660 to $3850 and six charges over bets placed with Tabcorp ranging from $250 to $1000.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”

A MOTHER has been charged with sending her 16-year-old daughter to work as a prostitute at a brothel in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
The Wollongong District Court was told yesterday the schoolgirl was taken by her mother to Liaisons Executive Retreat, a brothel in the eastern inner-city suburb of Edgecliff, and was made to work there for two weeks.
The Ten Network reported last night that the girl allegedly provided services to more than 18 clients over period of 13 hours, charging up to $330 an hour and working under the name “Layla”.
The woman is accused of taking most of the girl’s earnings as a prostitute to support the family.

Despite being traumatised by her first experience at the brothel, she had returned there three more times as she did not want to “disappoint” her mother.

The mother has pleaded not guilty to the child prostitution charges and will face court again next month.

See the full article from “Herald Sun”

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Pole Dancing Demo on the Grill Team!
The Grill Team 26 July, 2010 – 8:34 AM
The latest prize added to the Grill Team Man Cave is very controversial… A stripper pole!
Pole dancing is a new fitness craze, and leading Western Sydney instructor Suzy Q showed us a few of her killer moves on the pole this morning on the Grill Team. 
No longer just the domain of exotic dancers, ladies everywhere are embracing the full-body workout of the pole dance.
But the latest prize poses a new question. Obviously, your average bloke will have difficulty getting much done on the pole, so can your girlfriend/wife intrude on the sacred space of the Man Cave, if she’s limber enough to give the pole a go?

See the full article from “TripleM Sydney (blog)”