Read more about Kathleen:

Dirty Business

Melanie Ambrose, The Sunday Times STM Magazine, 10 May, 2009

“It was like an action scene straight out of Hollywood. Only, the actors were real and the stakes higher. Sitting in a blacked out minivan in searing heat on the outskirts of Manila, Kathleen Maltzahn, a human rights activist from Melbourne watched anxiously as armed police descended on a group of dilapidated buildings. Could they free those trapped inside?”

http://www.law.uq.edu.au/documents/humantraffic/news/2009/2009-May-10-Dirty-business.pdf

Freedom Fighter

Amy McDonald, LOTL, December 2008

“‘My mum tells me she took me to the moratorium marches [when I was still in the pram] after my dad’s parents refused to mind me,’ Kathleen says. ‘Apparently they thought marching was scandalous and they weren’t going to aid and abet her’.”

http://digital.lotl.com/default.aspx?iid=19435&startpage=page0000003

Trafficking in female misery

Crusader Hillis, MCV, 2009

“Her work has informed a remarkable new book, Trafficked. Paced like a true crime thriller, it deftly tackles the issues of trafficked Asian women in Australia. It describes her two long stays in the Philippines, where she witnessed first hand the cruelty and inhumane conditions that women were forced to live with as prostitutes on the streets, in poor bars and for the American military. Stories of rape, brutality and enforced incarceration in filthy cells in brothels were commonplace.”

http://mcv.e-p.net.au/features/trafficking-in-female-misery-4161.html