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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty

Australia could be a ‘dumping ground’ for goods made for us with forced labour, anti-slavery tsar warns

Chris Evans
Chris Evans says Australia has ‘one of the weakest regimes’ to counter slave labour. Photograph: Alan Porritt/AAP

Australia’s modern slavery laws are among the weakest in the developed world and the country risks becoming a “dumping ground” for goods made with forced labour, Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner has said.

In a wide-ranging interview with Guardian Australia, the commissioner, Chris Evans – a former Labor senator and minister – said there were “blind spots” in Australia’s efforts that risked the country becoming a global laggard.

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