The Scarlet Mile was the name given to Kalgoorlie's Hay Street — a play-on-words associated with the mining city's famous Golden Mile, which was once considered the richest square mile on Earth.
"I remember the police coming down [on] the third or fourth night telling me that I couldn't take the girls off the street, because I was taking away a tourist attraction." From conversations she has had with several former madams over the years, she believes there was 17 brothels on Hay Street at its peak, when gold nuggets would commonly be traded for sex.
"Nobody can say what will happen … if somebody buys it, they probably still have the right to operate it as a bordello," she said.Tourists flocked to see brothel
Need to install a penicillin machine for all visitors
Good cash flow in the middle of Australia's worst drought.