BIKINI GIRL MASSAGE CAFE

The Hon. S.W. KEY (Ashford) (15:11): As many people in this house will know, I have been working for quite some time with different community groups to reform the sex industry in South Australia. It has been interesting that, over the last couple of weeks, I have received complaints from different constituents not about my plans to reform the sex industry but actually raising some issues that would need to be part of that legislation. I need to say that I am not in a position to identify many of these constituents because they are very fearful of being identified because of what has happened in other places where this particular business has been established.

I have also been sent information from constituents about where the Bikini Girl Massage Cafe has been set up in other places in South Australia. I refer particularly to an article in a News Review Messenger (which I understand is a northern suburbs Messenger) entitled 'Parents Parlour Problem' on Wednesday 26 May 2010, page 3. The article states:

A massage parlour offering 'bikini clad girls' is being operated by convicted conman just 50 metres from a northern primary school. Bon Levi—aka Ron Frederick—opened the business a fortnight ago in Chivell Street opposite the Elizabeth South Primary School, angering parents.

The article continues:

Mr Levi has more than 50 convictions for fraud, stealing, assault and false pretences. In 2008, he was jailed for 10 months for contempt of court and faces 91 court charges for misleading advertising, in relation to the Bikini Girls Massage business he ran in Perth. He is due in the Perth court on 1 September [presumably in 2010]. Playford Council Group Manager of City Development, Greg Pattinson, said the council had received complaints and was currently investigating the matter.

This article was sent to me via email by a number of constituents because Bikini Girl Massage has now set up on South Road at Black Forest diagonally across from the Black Forest Primary School and also in the same building as a number of recreational facilities including one that provides dancing classes to young girls and women.

It was interesting meeting with a number of parents and a couple of young people who are participants in the dancing school (there is also an adult ballroom dancing facility in that building). One of the young girls who was at the meeting said that she was very disappointed because when this particular facility opened up a couple of weeks ago there were lots of pink balloons on the door, and she wanted to go in to find out whether she could get some pink balloons. She was also disappointed because, when she went to the ladies toilet, she met one of the workers there, and she was not in bikinis at all. So, she was very disappointed. She said that she was in underwear and she really could not understand how the underwear could be bikinis.

The problem with the facilities in this particular building is that the toilets are shared by everybody in the building, so it means that the dance school and the ballroom dancing school share the same facilities as the Bikini Girl Massage parlour staff. I think the thing that is even more of concern is that they share them with the clientele of that particular facility.

I am also reminded that under the Child Protection Act organisations that provide services to children need to be able to create and maintain a child safe environment and also need to be able to make sure that all sorts of organisations provide that safety, which, under the act, include a wide range of bodies who work with children, including businesses, service providers, incorporated and unincorporated groups, and organisations.