Queensland couple hid 'imported' alleged servant for eight years

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A Tongan couple working in Australia 'imported' a live-in worker from Fiji because they felt a servant was missing from their lives, a court has heard.

A Fijian woman who was allegedly trafficked into forced labour for a couple in suburban Brisbane has spoken through tears in a Queensland court.

She said she rarely made calls to her family in Fiji because the couple warned her they were expensive. The couple pleaded not guilty to the trafficking and forced labour charges on Monday but guilty to harbouring an unlawful non-citizen. But in 2006, Mr Pulini and Ms Pulini secured work in Australia as a civil engineer and public servant respectively.

 

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