A MAN, who was arrested in a police raid this morning in Cabramatta, was allegedly trafficking women from Thailand to Australia.
The 42-year-old man allegedly trafficked women to work in a Sydney brothel. He is expected to appear in court at the Downing Centre on February 14.
Earlier today, federal police smashed their way into a home in southwest Sydney before a witness saw two men escorted away moments later.
The raid occurred at a two-storey brick home about 8.40pm on Fairview Road, Cabramatta last night and also covered a neighbouring residence.”I saw ten AFP officers smash open the double gates and then smash open the front door,” a local resident, who didn’t want to be named, said.”Five or ten minutes after that I saw two people taken away, they were both of Asia backgrounds.

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A MAN, who was arrested in a police raid this morning in Cabramatta, was allegedly trafficking women from Thailand to Australia.
The 42-year-old man allegedly trafficked women to work in a Sydney brothel. He is expected to appear in court at the Downing Centre on February 14.
Earlier today, federal police smashed their way into a home in southwest Sydney before a witness saw two men escorted away moments later.
The raid occurred at a two-storey brick home about 8.40pm on Fairview Road, Cabramatta last night and also covered a neighbouring residence.”I saw ten AFP officers smash open the double gates and then smash open the front door,” a local resident, who didn’t want to be named, said.”Five or ten minutes after that I saw two people taken away, they were both of Asia backgrounds.

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NSW State Coroner Mary Jerram found Mrs Rendaric did not commit suicide or take the chemical by accident.
But while Ms Jerram said Mrs Rendaric’s death was suspicious, she said there was not enough evidence to indicate how she came to have ingested the poison.
The court heard Mrs Rendaric told family GP Jerzy Cywinsky that her son had talked about “putting someone on” to his parents because he had “connections”, not long before she died.
But Dr Cywinsky said he believed the threat came during a heated argument and was not serious.
“(Steven’s) talking about a hitman, but I don’t think he was connected to a hitman to do it,” he said.
Mrs Rendaric and her son clashed over his former girlfriend, who his parents believed was a prostitute, and a house he was building on the property.

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I took the night off for NYE and did the whole boy thing with some new friends who like me both in drag and out of it. We spent the evening on Sydney Harbour and got up close and personal to the fireworks. It was nice to be included in the whole family thing and to be accepted for who I was even though they weren’t my family.

It’s nice to see they are supporting western Sydney talent, we love paid work! It will be an alternative night out during the week as we only have social dances on the weekend. As The Closet doors open it will be a breath of fresh air in western Sydney, so get out and support the new night. Free entry before 9pm and for drag kings and queens, between 9-11pm $10, after 11pm $15.

Thank God I have drag daughters to pimp out as I’m set to do drag every weekend now. I’m such a glutton for punishment!

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The film, which screened at the Sydney Film Festival last year, had its international premiere at the Rotterdam film festival last week and will have a limited release in Sydney in March. Two other Australian films were also shown at the festival – The Hunter and Hail, which features former jail inmate turned actor Daniel P. Jones shooting up on screen.

That discomfort is not shared by Angie, who is paid to appear in front of a camera, but refuses to conform to the stereotype of sex worker as victim. ”What’s the most common fantasy of all my clients?” she asks at one point. ”I’m enjoying it. They all want to be special.”
The inspiration for Angie came after a meeting Winter had with potential investors of another film. ”They were concerned I wasn’t portraying the sex worker as a victim,” he said. ”I left that meeting feeling irritated. But it made me want to take on a film about a woman who’s chosen to be a prostitute and who is strong and opinionated about her job.”

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A few weeks ago I decided to shirk some of my home responsibilities by hunkering down on my family’s couch with a cup of scalding hot coffee and a huge slice of cake (chocolate, naturally) to watch what Netflix promised to be one of the more sensual erotic thrillers Australia had to offer in 2011, Jon Hewitt’s X. Sexy Australians running around Sydney hell bent on killing and/or not getting killed; prostitutes trying to get out of the game but getting pulled back in for one last gig? That sounded like a good time to me. I know we all feel hot and cold when it comes to Netflix and their questionable suggestion algorithm, however I was feeling lucky and honestly the DVD really needed to make its way back to my local distribution after three months of gathering dust. So, why not give what would have been considered a conventional Cinemax after-hours sexy time (but since it’s Australian it’s art) a try?

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BERESFORD HOTEL – Beresford Sundays, Happy Hour 5-7pm with DJs from 3 with free entry.
COLOMBIAN – DJ Sandi Hotrod & guests from 8pm.
DYKES ON BIKES – Meet every week from 5pm at the Hampshire Hotel in Camperdown. All welcome.
HEADQUARTERS – Fist Party 2-7pm
IMPERIAL – Beer Bust 3-8pm with great drinks specials. Plus Pretty Peepers cabaret.
IVY – Freemasons and Katherine Ellis DJ and perform with local supports. Tix through Moshtix.
KEN’S OF KENSINGTON – Sex-on-site venue. Sunday arvo session.
LOOSE ENDS -  @ Phoenix, 10pm-late, free entry. DJ Matt Vaughan and guests.
LORD ROBERTS HOTEL – Bears on Sunday from 4pm on the sundeck. $12 jugs of beer & HCB members cash draw.
MIDNIGHT SHIFT – Call Girls with Maxi Shield, Verushka Darling, Tora Hymen, free entry. Plus Freemasons official after-party.

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After that, she’ll go straight into a two-month run in Truck Stop, a new play by award-winning playwright Lachlan Philpott debuting in May at Sydney’s Q Theatre Company. It’s roughly based on the true story of two high school girls who dabble in prostitution, which Tovey, who plays one of the girls, laughingly admits, “doesn’t sound like a very fun story”.
“But there’s a lot of joy in it, as well as showing the darker side of these girls’ lives. It’s more of a comment on what kind of world young women are growing up in.

Tovey describes her own childhood as “incredibly lucky and wonderful”. She grew up in Sydney’s inner west, with her mum, author Libby Gleeson; dad Euan Tovey, a medical research scientist; and two elder sisters, Amelia and Josephine. “We’re very strong, loud women,” she says.

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SHOULD Sydney police be in the business of deciding who runs a strip club in Kings Cross? The liquor regulator thinks not.

The authority warned giving police the unprecedented power to influence hiring at the Darlinghurst Road establishment may ”potentially compromise” officers and reopen the door to ”official corruption” in Sydney’s vice district.

The move against Show Girls – which is owned by the Kings Cross identity Michael Koutra – stemmed from the arrest last year of the strip club’s manager and bouncer for allegedly dealing cocaine from the premises.

In the aftermath of the cocaine arrests, Kings Cross police moved to slap 14 new licence conditions on the Show Girls licensee, Cathie Downie, a single mother from western Sydney who police say is on the premises just three nights a week, from Sunday to Tuesday.

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SHOULD Sydney police be in the business of deciding who runs a strip club in Kings Cross? The liquor regulator thinks not.

The authority warned giving police the unprecedented power to influence hiring at the Darlinghurst Road establishment may ”potentially compromise” officers and reopen the door to ”official corruption” in Sydney’s vice district.

The move against Show Girls – which is owned by the Kings Cross identity Michael Koutra – stemmed from the arrest last year of the strip club’s manager and bouncer for allegedly dealing cocaine from the premises.

In the aftermath of the cocaine arrests, Kings Cross police moved to slap 14 new licence conditions on the Show Girls licensee, Cathie Downie, a single mother from western Sydney who police say is on the premises just three nights a week, from Sunday to Tuesday.

See the full article from “Sydney Morning Herald”