Mr. Michael Quinlan:

It is interesting that Senator Bacik has asked this. One thing that occurs to me is that were there six people present who were sex workers there might be a really important element to the discussion. I have looked at all of this and really cannot understand how the one can be done without the other; how it is possible to criminalise the one and decriminalise the other and vice versa, without looking at the issue of the adults who consent to have sex and thereby get into this situation. All I know comes from the reports I have read. We are talking about the Swedish model because the committee has stated that its members visited Sweden. I would have asked the committee to look at the models in Australia, New Zealand and other countries and to consider how we might adapt those too rather than look at only one model.

I would consider how we might protect both parties.