Hay Street, Kalgoorlie was a notorious red light area in

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...

for most of the history of Kalgoorlie. The prevalence of the brothels was part of the law and order issue of an isolated mining town, where

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and gold stealing were all regularly reported forms of criminality. The street and its associations would regularly be reported in mainstream media. Towards the end of the twentieth century the prostitution was less infamous, and photographs and stories were more public than in earlier times. Regulation and prohibition of the prostitution in the street have been publicly discussed a number of times by the

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and citizens of Kalgoorlie. one brothel remained open. The street, closer to the town centre, has a number of important administration buildings, and respectable businesses.

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