Fed: Labor calls for inquiry into Aust sex trade
Labor is calling for a wide-ranging judicial inquiry into women and girls being broughtinto Australia for the sex trade.
Opposition Leader SIMON CREAN and opposition immigration spokeswoman JULIA GILLARDsay there've been increasing reports in recent months of girls and women being traffickedinto Australia to work in the sex industry.
They say the Immigration Department has identified more than 130 people who have beenworking without valid visas in the sex industry in just the last 10 months.
They say they can only assume that the size of the trade is much larger than the numbersdetected.
Mr CREAN and Ms GILLARD also say there are claims the government is more concernedwith deporting the women involved rather than working with them to gather evidence toattack the the trade.
AAP dep/sb/gjr/rca
KEYWORD: SEX (CANBERRA)
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