Australian Capital Territory THE AUSTRALIAN SENATE, IN 1991, CONDUCTED AN EXHIBITION AND A SERIES of

lectures to commemorate the centenary of the National Australasian Convention of 1891. At this Convention the first draft of the Australian Constitution was prepared. This Convention was at a time of industrial strikes in the shearing and maritime industries that concluded in defeat of the unions involved. These affairs stimulated H.B. Higgins to successfully move, albeit by the narrowest of margins, for the adoption of labour power in the 1898 sittings of the Constitutional Convention. How things change! In April 1991, there were media statements that scientists had discovered a hormone treatment for sheep that allowed the fleece to be removed in one piece with a few gentle tugs. So the stimulus for Australia's unique industrial system, the shearers, may soon be by-passed by technological change. And with social change who might be entering the industrial arena? Workers in the sex industry. This could well be beyond the imagination of the founders of our Constitution! This paper will look at some of the industrial aspects of people working in the sex industry with attention being focussed on those who provide personal services. Past debat