Abstract:
The Brothels Legislation Amendment Act 2007 (NSW) was passed by the New South
Wales Parliament to expedite the closure of ‘disorderly and unlawful brothels’. This
article details the enforcement regime introduced by the Act and then considers the
reasons for these reforms. The author argues that the reforms are not aimed at tangible,
negative impacts, but instead at ‘unlawfulness and disorderliness’. The author concludes
by suggesting that rather than the current approach of harsh expulsion and exclusion, the
government could better achieve law and order through legalisation and regulation.
