Aussie tourists and HIV-positive hookers in Bali

Did you see this story by Steve Pennells in the West Australian newspaper on the weekend about Australians and HIV- positive working girls in Bali?

Here's a taste of the article:

"Australians are not good," Lily says, sitting on the floor of a small room in Sanur surrounded by cheap glamour photos taken of her in a bikini. 

 The young ones are always "mabuk", she explains, using the Indonesian word for drunk.  

And they are often rough.  

"I see it at Paddys Bar all the time. They are drunk, stupid and fighting," she says. She has sex with at least one Australian tourist each night, picking them up at the iconic 

Paddys Bar where she pays the staff RP50,000 ($5.43) to get inside and flirt with the tourists. When she goes back to their hotel, many refuse to use a condom.  

And she never tells them she is HIV positive. It's bad for business.

You can't be too careful. Seriously. I've seen so many men pick up a girl in a bar, without realising she's a working girl. And I've seen nearly as many offer to look after a girl so she can stop working and behind his back, she's still on the game. The prevalence of AIDS among working girls in Bali is SHOCKINGLY high, and tourists who stupidly insist on no protection are making a huge mistake.

This is exactly the kind of thing that made me start to write Bali Raw. People need to know the truth about the dark side of Bali.