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"Motels urge prostitution laws rethink" ABC News Online, 8 March, 2007

Some motel operators want Queensland's prostitution laws changed so they have more control over what goes on in their rooms. After news that police have issued warnings to three motels in the north Queensland city of Mackay where illegal prostitution activity was discovered, the Hotel-Motel Accommodation Association says operators should have the right to choose who they let their rooms to. Chief executive Greg Holmes says the association put its views to the State Government in the last review of the laws, but to no avail. "You can have a family in one unit with young children and there's prostitute clients coming backwards and forwards and that concerns and distresses some of our members," he said. "If we were able to have some sort of changes our change would be to give the operator control of whether or not they accept that sort of clientele."