To celebrate Good Weekend's 30th anniversary, we have selected 30 of the magazine's best features of the past three decades. This article was originally published on May 6, 1995. For the full list,. Coober Pedy is at the end of the world. The hot, harsh wind and the red earth, littered with holes from opal mining, only reinforce the sense of isolation. We have travelled here to find a 64-year-old man who, it's rumoured, has just arrived back from the Philippines with his third Filipino wife - his seventh wife altogether.

He knows we are coming. We rang him the previous day after a local policeman advised us not to arrive at the house without warning. Initially, we're not sure we have the right address. We can see only a low, dusty hill and a long wall of corrugated iron. The first impressions of a young woman arriving here from the Philippines can only be imagined. • SHARE • • • Link 'Filipina women are more loving,': Roy Fittler, with wife Gelna.

Photo: Scanned from original Good Weekend story There are stories that scuttle away in the darkness like crabs, waving their pincers to keep you from getting too close. We get close on our journey, talking to women it has taken weeks to find, gradually realising a second story is brushing our heels, one that runs like an undercurrent beneath the first.

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The pincers recede only a little in Darwin the first afternoon, in air made fragrant by frangipanis. We meet Rose in Darwin, a pretty, wise-cracking, 34-year-old Filipina, who escapes the heat in the late afternoons by driving herself down to the pier in the harbour to go fishing. Sometimes she uses her walking-frame to get herself to the edge of the pier.

Other times she fishes from her wheelchair, casting her line into that flat, jade sea. This is how she relaxes, watching the sea and the people coming to eat at the outdoor cafes nearby.

• SHARE • • • Link Rose was diagnosed as a quadrepglic in December 1988, 11 months after a final, brutal episode in which her husband deliberately dropped two large, heavy pot plants from an upstairs balcony while she was kneeling on the ground. Photo: Scanned from original Good Weekend story The frangipanis will never be able to provide her with the same kind of pleasure. In the Philippines, frangipani blossoms are used for funerals. Bong Ramilo tells us that. He also tells us about the flights he has been on, full of drunken Australian men going to Manila. 'But the worst experiences I've had are here,' he says, 'in Australia, with taxi-drivers (asking him) to get them a wife.' By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's and.

He watches, too, as another category of Australian men operates on the fringes, where the pincers are waving. • SHARE • • • Link Emilio Chignola with seventh wife Jocelyn - he says his marriages have been mercy missions, rescuing women from lives of poverty. Photo: Scanned from original Good Weekend story Ramilo knew about Rose, and what happened to her. This is the shameful story of serial sponsors, Australian men who traffic in Third World women under the guise of pursuing happiness. • SHARE • • • Link Tess's husband recieved a two-year prison sentence for assault. Photo: Scanned from original Good Weekend story Serial sponsors go shopping for wives and fiancees in countries which they regard as bargain bins of docile, domesticated, disposable women, sexually submissive and easily controlled. They may represent the extreme end of the marriage-migration market, but they haven't come from nowhere.

'I can't draw the line after three or four marriages and say, 'That's it, you can't have any more.' I think That would be social engineering at its worst' Senator Nick Bolkus in 1993 They're a consequence of the conscious or unconscious attitude of many Australian men towards Asian women - which is the undercurrent mentioned earlier, the second story running beneath the first. Free download hindi mp3 songs jhankar beats. Serial sponsors are the kind of men who have difficulty finding partners in their own culture (many are divorced), because of their unyielding views of women in general. • SHARE • • • Link 'I can't draw the line after three or four marriages and say 'that's it, you can't have any more.'

I think that would be social engineering at its worst.' : Senator Nick Bolkus in 1983. Photo: Scanned from original Good Weekend story Their hidden agendas for the women they import include housebound slave-labour (at least one woman was expected to dig drains and concrete) and on-call sex (these men frequently import much younger women). The influence of sex tours - the perversion of '80s tourism - cannot be discounted either. A few years ago in Manila, an Australian reportedly described Filipino women as 'little brown f.ing machines' to a visiting filmmaker, a brutal turn of phrase which continues to have currency, says Dee Hunt, a Filipina who works with the CPCA in Brisbane.

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