It wasn’t until 31-year-old Mali (not her real name) from southern Thailand moved to Australia to live with her partner that she realised “he wasn’t the person I hoped he would be”. “He tried to control who I talked to. I wasn’t allowed to have friends. After work, I had to come straight home,” Mali told SBS Thai. At the time, Mali worked in a factory near their home in a regional town in south-west Victoria, but had no access to her income. “When my first pay cheque came, he took all of it,” she said. “I couldn’t use any money for myself or send anything home to my parents, even though it was my own income.”
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