INQUIRER.net: Clash over sex worker rights in rural Australia

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Clash over sex worker rights in rural Australia Jun 29th 2013, 02:12 MORANBAH, Australia— A lone woman checking into a motel in the Australian mining town of Moranbah can expect some blunt questioning from the owners: "Are you a working girl?"   Turning on a heel and storming away indignantly will be taken as an admission to prostitution.   "That sort of reaction is really positive proof as far as I'm concerned," said Joan Hartley, the 67-year-old owner of the Drover's Rest Motel and champion of motel operators who want to rid their businesses of sex workers cashing in on a mining boom.   Moranbah in the coal-rich Bowen Basin is part of the new landscape of Australian mining. Workers are increasingly leaving their ho... Keep on reading: Clash over sex worker rights in rural Australia Media files: Australia-Sex-Worker-photo-1.jpg (image/jpeg)

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