{"id":1643,"date":"2018-07-20T00:39:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T00:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2018-07-20T00:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T00:39:16","slug":"modern-slavery-alive-and-well-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/news\/modern-slavery-alive-and-well-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Modern slavery alive and well in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While you might regard the boss as a bit of a tyrant, global research funded by mining magnate Andrew Forrest\u2019s Minderoo Foundation discovered that actual slavery in Australia involves around 15,000 people. Key findings within the Foundation\u2019s 2018 Global Slavery Index, involving 71,000 face-to-face interviews with people across 48 countries, pointed the finger squarely at Australia and other developed economies for not doing enough to eradicate modern slavery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Currently in New York to present key survey findings, Forrest accused developed economies of heightened exposure to slavery due to global trade flows, with the G20 nations alone importing US$354 billion of products linked to forced labour annually.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Based on Index findings, Australia imports what are regarded as \u2018at-risk of modern slavery\u2019 products valued at US$12 billion-plus annually, including US$6.6 billion of electronics from China alone. While the US was identified as the biggest importer of at-risk products, goods most at risk of slavery included electronics, clothes, cocoa, rice and fish.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forrest claims that the federal government\u2019s Modern Slavery Bill, introduced to parliament in June, lacks teeth without having an independent commissioner, and\/or any penalties for non-compliance. Assuming the bills passes as is, companies with annual turnover of $100 million-plus will be required to highlight any modern slavery within their supply chain and report it to the authorities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What\u2019s responsible for pushing Australia\u2019s slavery numbers up threefold since 2016, is greater exposure to forced marriages, prostitution rackets, combined with more sophisticated data recording measures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a threefold increase in modern slavery in Australia acceptable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-people-culture","category-salary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.careerone.com.au\/career-advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}