'Harrowing Stories of Mistreatment and Harm' in Modern Slavery Report

'Harrowing stories of mistreatment and harm' in modern slavery report

A NSW parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery risks in regional areas found evidence of migrant workers living in near uninhabitable conditions, forced to work demanding hours and threatened if they spoke up.

Commissioners Call for Tougher Measures to Combat Modern Slavery in Australia

Anti-slavery commissioners across Australia have called for concrete action following revelations migrants have been working under conditions akin to modern-day slavery.  A system of illegal labour exploitation was still present in regional and rural New South Wales (NSW), the state’s anti-slavery Commissioner James Cockayne said on Aug.5. This involved forced labour, debt bondage, servitude, deceptive recruiting and in some cases, sexual servit…

‘On notice for years’: Anti-slavery chief targets Nationals leader

The NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner says Nationals leader Gurmesh Singh has “been on notice” for many years about the prevalence of unscrupulous labour hire firms operating in his electorate, saying there’s a question how these systems of exploitation have persisted.