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Morgan Reinwald

Australia's elephant in the room: modern-day slavery

Fruit picking and animal slaughtering are some of the jobs taken on by migrants in Australia. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

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 NSW, the state's anti-slavery Commissioner James Cockayne said on Wednesday.

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