A trade union leader in exile is urging Labor to implement tougher penalties on his home country.
As Labor's national conference prepares to debate foreign policy stances on its final day, the president of the Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar is hoping pressure can be placed on the government to go further with sanctions on the Southeast Asian country.
Muang Muang, who has a warrant for his arrest since a 2021 coup in the country, is in Australia for the Labor conference, making the case for greater penalties.
"We need more active implementation of resolutions that have been passed," he told AAP.
"There have been resolutions passed by the parliament and there have been sanctions passed by the government, but sanctions need to be enforced, otherwise these are just papers.
"There is goodwill, but unless there are enforcements, the party that has been sanctioned will not respond."
Labor implemented targeted financial sanctions and travel bans in 2023 on those responsible for 2021's coup.
Mr Maung said issues in Myanmar had fallen off the public agenda in the years since the coup, but urged Labor delegates to push for stronger action in the party's platform.
"Governments have quite a lot of things on their hands at the moment. It's the Iran issue, then we have the Ukraine issue. Then we have the Palestine issue," he said.
"The Burma issue is right at the bottom of the table."
Mr Maung said ideal action from Labor would be passing a motion similar to that implemented by the UN's International Labour Organisation.
"That would be something concrete," he said.
"I would like rank and file members to understands their contribution to solidarity is of much importance."
