The horrific ordeal two broke Finnish backpackers faced when they arrived to work as bartenders in the Australian outback is laid bare in a shocking documentary.
Director Pete Gleeson's Hotel Coolgardie, screening in cinemas now, shows what happened when Lina and Steph arrived in the small Australian town of Coolgardie and starting working and living at the Denver City Hotel.
At the time the documentary was filmed, the owner would have an agency send two female foreign backpackers every three months to work there – and Lina and Steph were the latest.
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Lina (left) and Steph's nightmare stint in Coolgardie, Western Australia, is captured in documentary Hotel Coolgardie
The former owner of the Denver City Hotel would put up a cardboard sign when new girls were coming to town
The new manager has said the practice no longer happens at the Denver City Hotel and that the documentary was filmed several years ago.
But the former owner would proudly place a chalkboard sign outside the pub that proclaimed: 'New Girls Tonite!'
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ShareHe even lewdly comments that his male patrons 'grow a new leg' when new girls come to town – and even compete to see who can bed them first.
In the film, these drunken patrons are seen abusing and making unwanted sexual advances towards the young women.
The women are seen subjected to racist comments and unwanted sexual advances in the film
Even their boss hurls insults at them, calling them 'stupid' and asking: 'You eat seals and s***, don't cha? Reindeer?'
Years on, Lina says watching the film was emotional – and left her feeling angry.
'Racism got a whole new meaning for me in Coolgardie,' she told Guardian Australia.
'It was really hard to be there, knowing it wasn't right, what they were doing to us.'
The backpackers said they needed the job and money after they were robbed in Bali
But after they were robbed in Bali, they needed the work to replenish their travel fund and return home.
'[We] didn't want to lose the job, because we needed the money.
'So we had to bite out tongues and be nice and polite, then cry behind closed doors.'
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