International students in sex trade
International female students earn up to $10,000 a week as sex workers while brothel websites openly advertise "new fresh girls". One Asian woman has not turned up to  a single lesson at the English course she signed up to attend. Instead she has been working 12-hour shift, seven days a week at a group of 4 city brothels.
DIAC fraud officers were alerted to widespread abuse of student visas, with some of the sex workers paying corrupt immigration agents in their own country up to $8,000 to arrange their "visas" under the foreign student program.
(Read more in the (The Daily Telegraph 1 Sept 2010).

Stop Press: The Green, Adam Brandt signs up with Labour which makes :
Labour+Green=73, Coalition=73 and 4 Independents. 
         
              
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The latest on the Australian recent elections
Lets's be fair, square and clear about the results of the recent general elections. It is abvious that Labour lost the elections because it lost its majority of 18 seats and obtaining only 72 seats. The majority required for any party to form government in its own right is 76.
But by the same token, the Coalition of Tony Abbott did not win the elections at it fails to obtain a majority. The Coalition of Libs-Nats obtained only73 seats. Thus to form a government both parties need the support of the 5 Independents or some of them to reach the magic 76 number.
But what is the situation without the independents? This is how Paul Kelly analyses the situation:
"IN a situation of great uncertainty there is one certainty; Julia Gillard is entitled to stay prime minister until Tony Abbott constructs a majority against Labor or Gillard loses a confidence motion on the floor of parliament. The Governor-General will be directly involved if Gillard loses the confidence of the lower house. At this point Gillard would have to resign despite her repeated assertions that she intends to form a government. The only other option would be for Gillard to advise a new election claiming the parliament was unworkable. 
However, there is one right Gillard does enjoy as PM; even if Abbott and enough independents reached an agreement, Gillard would be entitled as PM to test this on the floor of parliament to put it beyond question.If Gillard lost a confidence motion she would have to resign immediately. She would not be entitled to argue to Governor-General Quentin Bryce that she remains in office because Abbott might not be able to form a stable government.Once Gillard resigned, the Governor-General would send for Abbott, ask if Abbott were able to form a government and commission him."
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Opinion of GDL: .
In my wildest dream (or nightmare), I would never have given the slightest chance for Tony Abbott to be Australia's PM one day. I know the man and his many “deboires” too well. His conservative views, his arrogance, his belief in white supremacy, he is against immigration and multiculturalism. We all know that he had PM ambition for a long time but even if he was very very close to John Howard, Peter Costello was second in charge and was tipped to be the Liberals next leader. With the demise of the Coalition at the 2007 elections, Peter Costello turned his back on politics and the way was opened to other contenders. At the time, no one was betting on Tony Abbott to lead the party. The Libs preferred Brendon Nelson and then Malcolm Turnbull. But then came an unexpected event, the ETS which divided the Coalition and Tony became leader by only one vote difference over Malcolm Turnbull. 
When Tony Abbott was elected leader of his party, I was thinking that these people are crazy, they must be mad to endorse such an individual with all his past and what we all know about him, he would be unelectable and lead the party to the wilderness.(karo kann).
But this campaign proved me wrong and I have to do my mea culpa three times. Tony Abbott capitalized on Labour’s mistakes(there are so many of them) and the "knifing" of Kevin Rudd so well that he cut short Julia’s honeymoon with the public. He behaved so well, made no mistake, avoided any slip of the tongue (for which he is renown). He ran a perfect negative campaign and kept hammering Labor and the government in their most sensitive areas: the debt, mismanagement, the boat people,the insulation debacle and Kevin Rudd demise. These were the issues that caused Labour to lose this election. Labour's better Health and Education, Broadband network, good management of the GFC do not seem not enough to outweigh the mistakes.
Nevertheless, I supported Julia and Labour because I beleive that they are more compasionate to people who are on the lower rungs of the ladder. Their social policies are better suited for equal opportunitues and chances for all. I also believe that Labour has done well during the GFC as compared to other countries.
It seems however, that the August 21 elections was more of a protest vote against labour even though, as Malcolm Fraser said, Tony and his team are not ready to govern.  But this is the nature of politics and this is democracy. The party winning the most seats should govern even as a monority government.

Uncertainty still prevails in Australia.
It is still not known which party will form the new government. While it is now 73-73 seats each, Labour has gained a slight majority votes on two-party preferred. Each of the tw major parties does not a valid claim to form a government in its its own right.
We still do not have a clue  which way the 4 independents will go, or will they finally decide to sit on the fence. Can they deprive Labour of power ? I believe that the independents are just playing delaying tactics and try to get the best deals for their electorates.
No matter who wins government, their demands will be met to some extent ; however neither the Coalition nor Labour has to submit to their whims and caprices and surely not be seen as "bending down" in front of them. The Independents cannot block supply nor should they vote on motion of no confidence.
At this stage, I feel that all negotiations should be stopped as it has become irrelevant. The next negotiation round with the Independents will come on the floor of parliament, whenever the government will present new legislations.

The Two-Party-Preferred vote explained:
The argument over legitimacy continues. Julia Gillard claims the national two party preferred vote is “the” vote, while Tony Abbot says the primary vote is more important. Who’s right? The answer to this question is ...... easy: it’s Gillard.
Our system of preferential voting is conceptually like the two round one in countries like France. There, a first vote is taken between lots of candidates. Then two weeks later another election is held between the only two viable candidates. Sometimes, as here, the runner up in the first vote wins the second one. We do something like that but on the same day, on the same piece of paper.
So the answer to which is “the vote” is clear unless you want to pretend we have fir