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With anti-discrimination changes, Northern Territory has some of the world's most progressive sex work laws. It wasn't always that way

In the backstreets of Darwin's CBD, two women are hard at work in a small office cluttered with piles of flyers, placards and bright red umbrellas.

The brolleys aren't for the tropical monsoon setting in outside — red umbrellas are the internationally-recognised symbol of sex worker solidarity, representing rights, advocacy, protection and strength. 

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