Sex workers in Queensland must choose: be safe or be legal

Queensland’s ‘puritanical’ prostitution laws, enforced by undercover police, have left women vulnerable and scared

The charges against Janet* were a set-up. But in Queensland it’s legal for undercover police to pose as clients, to pressure sex workers into offering blacklisted services, then arrest them under the state’s “puritanical” prostitution laws.

She remembers receiving a call and taking a booking. When the casually dressed man showed up, he started asking unusual questions about the scope of her services and her business operation.

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