Australia has had a long history of human trafficking, beginning with “blackbirding” or the kidnapping of islanders to work on sugar plantations in Queensland, and the plight of the Stolen Generation of Indigenous Australians. The death of Puangthong Simaplee at the Villawood Detention Centre in 2001 and the subsequent coroner’s inquest highlighted the existence of human trafficking here in Australia. In 2004, I heard about the plight of Thai w…
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