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Human Trafficking in the Media

News from 2018

  • Domestic workers inside Canberra embassies kept in conditions likened to 'slavery' – 12 February 2018
  • More support for forced marriage victims – 15 February 2018
  • Man accused of trafficking woman into Australia, forcing her into sex work – 15 February 2018
  • Accused sex trafficker allegedly brought young woman to Canberra brothel from overseas – 15 February 2018
  • Man accused of using wife as slave – 20 February 2018
  • Husband to stand trial on slavery offence – 21 February 2018
  • Slavery: Australia’s hidden shame is being uncovered – 24 February 2018
  • Final push to fight underage sex trafficking hiding in plain sight – 27 February 2018
  • Australia to curb tourism to foreign orphanages that exploit children for profit – 1 March 2018
  • Canberra brothel operator charged with five more offences, including sexual intercourse without consent – 8 March 2018
  • Short film takes unflinching look inside the world of human trafficking – 11 March 2018​
  • Male sex workers catering to more women and couples, as legal reform lags – January 8, 2018
  • Change is coming, but some retailers aren't ready for slavery laws – January 1,  2018

News from 2017

  • Hidden in Plain Sight: An Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia
  • Australian child sex abusers on notice in Thailand –  January 2, 2018
  • Change is coming, but some retailers aren't ready for slavery laws – January 1, 2018
  • Australia’s first known organ trafficking case – December 31, 2017
  • Modern slavery: Corporations take action to free some of the 40 million slave workers – December 27, 2017
  • The irony of our Christmas generosity is its link to modern slavery – December 23, 2017
  • Modern slavery laws must fully decriminalise sex work, advocates say – December 22, 2017
  • Worker exploitation: Victorian body to crack down on abuse of employees – December 13, 2017
  • Accused asked family of alleged slave if they'd like her 'returned in a coffin', court hears – December 11, 2017
  • Government moves to curb modern slavery – December 11, 2017
  • Modern slavery to be targeted in new laws recommended by Australian parliamentary committee – December 10, 2017
  • A vital move to tackle the scourge of modern slavery – December 10, 2017
  • Modern slavery: call for independent commissioner to ask 'hard questions' – December 9, 2017
  • 'I was raped': Compensation for modern slaves welcomed after victims speak out – December 8, 2017
  • Australia needs new watchdog to tackle slavery, parliamentary inquiry says – December 7, 2017
  • Sydney man allegedly made family fly to India against their will and tried to cancel Australian visa – December 5, 2017
  • Malaysian woman jailed after trafficking friend for sex work in Perth brothel – November 28, 2017
  • 'It's not about one woman': A young Australian's fight to end sex trafficking - November 28, 2017
  • Sex slave’s plea: ‘I’m lost’ – November 18, 2017
  • Erasing modern slavery is a slow process, but it catches on in Australia – November 17, 2017
  • Jobs help slavery survivors rebuild lives – November 15, 2017
  • Melody Towns’ mission to end sexual slavery attracts Pride of Australia Award nomination – November 8, 2017
  • Campaign against orphanage tourism builds, as second global agency quits business –November 8,2017
  • Migrant workers living in squalor prompts council crackdown in some horticulture regions - November 3, 2017
  • How labour hire villains make millions from Australia's 'modern slavery' market - November 1, 2017
  • Slavery is a bigger problem now than when it was 'abolished' — and it's happening here - October 31, 2017
  • Australian slavery inquiry told fruit pickers 'brainwashed' and trapped in debt - October 30, 2017
  • National labour hire licensing scheme backed - October 30, 2017
  • Three years a slave: Inquiry hears story of local exploitation - October 30, 2017
  • 185 years later, inquiry finds slavery untracked in NSW - October 19, 2017
  • Drugs, child sex abuse a global challenge for AFP - October 16, 2017
  • Police swoop on Gold Coast massage parlours suspected of offering sex - October 13, 2017
  • Australia to become the first country outside India to target dowry abuse - October 13, 2017
  • 'I found out he already had a partner': Shocking extent of migrant domestic abuse revealed - October 12, 2017
  • Queen backs action against modern slavery in all Commonwealth nations - October 11, 2017
  • Australia's Modern Slaves Might Not Be Wearing Chains But Are Just As Trapped - October 9, 2017
  • Modern slavery hearing - October 9, 2017
  • Priest calls for travel ban on paedophiles - October 8, 2017
  • The Australian Federal Police reveal young girls forced into marriage across Australia - June 28, 2017
  • US critiques Aust human trafficking record - June 27, 2017
  • Two men charged with slavery and possessing child exploitation material - June 24, 2017
  • Turnbull government's worker exploitation crackdown delayed - June 20, 2017
  • Queensland business fined $180k for exploiting foreign worker - June 19, 2017
  • 7-Eleven compensation bill climbs over $110 million - June 13, 2017
  • Should Australia have a Modern Slavery Act? - June 13, 2017
  • Sydney cleaning firm treated foreign workers as 'slaves', court says - June 8, 2017
  • Sydney cleaning company fined for ‘slave’ conditions, foreign worker exploitation - June 8, 2017
  • Labor vows to stamp out slavery in Australia's supply chains - June 5, 2017
  • Federal Labor pushes anti-slavery laws - June 5, 2017
  • Big business backs Labor call for new anti-slavery legislation - June 5, 2017
  • Renewed pressure to force companies to keep slavery out of supply chain - June 5, 2017
  • How much can you as a consumer really do to stop slave labour? - June 5, 2017
  • Thousands enslaved in Australia and companies linked to supply chains, inquiry told - May 31, 2017
  • Modern Slavery In Australia Is Hiding In Plain Sight - May 29, 2017
  • Teenager flown to Australia and 'kept as sexual slave' in Sydney house - May 19, 2017
  • Teenager brought from Africa to Sydney to be a cleaner was kept locked in a room and raped by a number of men - May 19, 2017
  • African teen used as 'sex slave', brought to Sydney on fake passport, police say - May 19, 2017
  • Police search for captor after girl's escape - May 19, 2017
  • How to spot the signs of human trafficking - May 19, 2017
  • African teenager says she was held as sex slave in Sydney for weeks - May 18, 2017
  • Government has role to play in stopping modern slavery - May 16, 2017
  • Experts warn child bride cases ‘tip of the iceberg’ - May 1, 2017
  • Anti-Slavery Australia - Behind the Screen: Online Child Exploitation in Australia - May 2017
  • Illegal brothel complaints spike after NSW government blocks sex industry reform - Apr 30, 2017
  • Melbourne man to be first person convicted of forced child marriage under federal law - Apr 30, 2017
  • Woman allegedly kept as slave for eight years was scalded with hot water, court hears - Apr 26, 2017
  • Minimum wage for temporary visa holders falls behind inflation - Apr 25, 2017
  • Scrapping 457 visas won't stop exploitation, expert says - Apr 20, 2017
  • Exploitation of Vietnamese students rampant among Melbourne businesses - Apr 20, 2017
  • Slavery laws would force Australian fashion labels to be more ethical – report - Apr 19, 2017
  • Australian businesses readying for action to combat modern slavery - Apr 14, 2017
  • Australia must legislate to prevent modern slavery in our supply chains - Apr 11, 2017
  • Seasonal Worker Program: Labour-hire operator slammed for abuse - Mar 29, 2017
  • First paedophile in NSW charged with cybersex trafficking - Mar 28, 2017
  • Slavery claims as seasonal workers paid nothing for months' work - Mar 28, 2017
  • 'Like slavery': Coast firm fined $230k for exploiting staff - Mar 28, 2017
  • Sydney man the first to be charged with cyber-sex trafficking in NSW - Mar 27, 2017
  • Blackmail, extortion and slavery at a restaurant near you - Mar 25, 2017
  • Exposing Complicity in the Global Slave Trade: Is it Time for a Modern Slavery Act in Australia? - Mar 20, 2017
  • Early morning WA raids find 50 illegal foreign workers crammed into dorm-style rooms - Mar 2, 2017
  • Legislation will hand higher penalties for serious contraventions of workplace laws - Mar 2, 2017
  • Early morning WA raids find 50 illegal foreign workers crammed into dorm-style rooms - Mar 2, 2017
  • We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them - Mar 1, 2017
  • Employer who threatened to “kill” Indian worker penalised $532,910 - Feb 9, 2017
  • Taiwanese pair to be deported over Brisbane slave house scam - Feb 8, 2017
  • Malaysian restaurant owners fined over $200,000 for exploiting workers with 'similar culture' - Feb 7, 2017
  • Indian men married to Australian women in alleged scam likened to Nine's Married at First Sight - Jan 30, 2017
  • Andrew Forrest driven to end modern slavery - Jan 25, 2017
  • Two men were jailed under modern slavery laws for exploiting Sports Direct's warehouse workers - Jan 24, 2017
  • LCA backs amendments to combat slavery - Jan 23, 2017
  • Young graduates claim undertaking unpaid internships is like ‘modern day slavery’ - Jan 18, 2017
  • Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace calls for working visa review - Jan 12, 2017
  • Ringleaders of Taiwanese crime gang that ran call centre scam take plea deal - Jan 11, 2017
  • TraffickCam Fights Human Trafficking With An App You Can Download - Jan 4, 2017
  • High time exploitation and underpayment of workers stamped out - Jan 2, 2017

News from 2016

  • Landmark legal action against Victorian vegetable grower over claims migrant workers were exploited - Dec 14, 2016
  • Employer groups warn against underpayment and an uneven playing field - Dec 13, 2016
  • Landmark legal action over farm underpayment - Dec 13, 2016
  • Once Cambodia closes its doors, where will Australia's surrogate baby trade go next? - Dec 11, 2016
  • The great student swindl - Dec 11, 2016
  • 7-Eleven signs Fair Work deed to prevent staff exploitation - Dec 8, 2016
  • Opinion: Australia’s prosperity now being built on the back of exploited migrants - Dec 8, 2016
  • Farming groups condemn illegal labour hire practices after raid uncovers foreign nationals working for Australia's largest asparagus producer - Dec 5, 2016
  • The slave trade in our own backyard - Dec 3, 2016
  • Inadequate response to exploitation - Dec 2, 2016
  • Slavery is the curse that has never really gone away - Dec 2, 2016
  • Business and religious groups join forces to end modern slavery  - Dec 2, 2016
  • Anti-slavery groups, religious leaders pen open letter to PM urging action on modern slavery - Dec 2, 2016
  • Wilmar slammed over Indonesian workers' rights abuses as it tries to seal Queensland sugar deal - Nov 30, 2016
  • Cambodia surrogate scandal: 'They immediately took her away from me. I didn't even get to see her face' - Nov 26, 2016
  • Cambodia sticks by tough stance on Australian surrogacies, likens practice to child trafficking - Nov 25, 2016
  • Exploitation Of Migrant Labour Is A 24-Hour Business - Nov 23, 2016
  • Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles charged with violating Cambodia’s surrogacy ban - Nov 22, 2016
  • Australian nurse, 49, arrested in surrogacy crackdown in Cambodia  - Nov 21, 2016
  • Australian woman charged with running illegal surrogacy clinic in Cambodia - Nov 21, 2016
  • Meat union says exploitation of backpackers worse than increase in backpacker tax - Nov 21, 2016
  • Australian nurse Tammy Davis-Charles arrested in Cambodian surrogacy crackdown - Nov 20, 2016
  • The unsavoury truths behind our fruit - Nov 16, 2016
  • Cleaning industry on notice for worker exploitation - Nov 16, 2016
  • Supermarkets need to step up in face of exploitation of migrant workers: National Union of Workers - Nov 16, 2016
  • Another supermarket fruit supplier caught allegedly underpaying migrants - Nov 15, 2016
  • ACT organisations tackle slavery - Nov 11, 2016
  • Top class protection needed to end exploitation of international students - Nov 4, 2016
  • Australian couples' baby plans in limbo as Cambodia bans commercial surrogacy - Nov 4, 2016
  • Sydney woman ignored over child bride reports - Nov 1, 2016
  • Revealed: the systemic exploitation of migrant workers in Australia - Oct 29, 2016
  • Victoria to introduce labour hire licensing scheme to stem exploitation - Oct 27, 2016
  • 7-Eleven, domestic and sexual slavery on top of migrant taskforce hit list - Oct 26, 2016
  • Human trafficking victims deserve national compensation scheme - Oct 24, 2016
  • Worker mistreatment flowing on to other visa holders including refugees and new arrivals - Oct 19, 2016
  • Andrew Forrest Calls on Government to Lead Regional Response against Slavery - Oct 17, 2016
  • Statement on 417 visa-holders - Oct 15, 2016
  • Backpackers sexually harassed and underpaid, government report finds - Oct 15, 2016
  • Asian backpackers 'especially vulnerable' to exploitation: Fair Work report - Oct 15, 2016
  • Chained to a bed and servicing 50 clients a day: this is why we need the Walk for Freedom - Oct 14, 2016
  • One woman’s campaign to end human trafficking - Oct 12, 2016
  • Unpaid overtime and dodgy internships: When employment becomes exploitation - Oct 11, 2016
  • Blackbirding: Slavery on Queensland's cane fields - Oct 9, 2016
  • Ping PongAThon: Aussie men urged to play ping pong to stop human trafficking - Oct 7, 2016
  • Perth international 'students' linked to sex work, human trafficking - Oct 1, 2016
  • Hub Shines Spotlight On Australia's 'Hidden' Slavery Issue - Aug 28, 2016
  • Fears over rise in migrant workers killed, injured in industrial accidents - Aug 27, 2016
  • 7-Eleven's wage fraud sparks $170 billion blow back - Aug 27, 2016
  • 7-Eleven: we are not alone in wage fraud - Aug 27, 2016
  • Fruit pickers paid a pittance, forced to work five weeks straight - Aug 25, 2016
  • Transplant surgeon wants Australians who travel overseas for an illegal organ transplant charged on their return - Aug 18, 2016
  • Why we're making no progress tackling the exploitation of migrant workers - Jul 28, 2016
  • Stronger protections needed to stop cycle of abuse among underpaid workers - Jul 26, 2016
  • Threats, abuse of power, demands for sex – modern slavery is happening in Australia - Jul 26, 2016
  • Comment: We need an Anti-Slavery Commissioner - Jul 26, 2016
  • Justice elusive for victims of forced labour - Jul 26, 2016
  • Most migrant sex workers satisfied with their work: Australian Institute of Criminology - Jul 22, 2016
  • Election 2016: Labor and Liberal unite against worker exploitation - Jul 2, 2016
  • Queensland inquiry split on tackling worker exploitation - Jul 1, 2016
  • ACT massage parlour accused of mistreatment, control of Filipino workers - Jul 1, 2016
  • Comment: Too many Australians remain unaware slavery exists in the ‘lucky country’ - Jun 29, 2016
  • Andrew Forrest’s Mission to End Modern Slavery - Jun 24, 2016
  • Labor to tighten 457 visa rules, review student visa - Jun 24, 2016
  • Labor will force labour hire companies to be licensed to help protect workers - Jun 23, 2016
  • $4-an-hour Filipinos chasing $62,000 in back pay - Jun 16, 2016
  • A modern-day slave in Australia's suburbs - Jun 9, 2016
  • Andrew Forrest: Global Slavery Index, Walk Free Foundation, about 46 million people in modern slavery - May 31, 2016
  • Modern slavery in global supply chains - May 31, 2016
  • Twiggy steps up anti-slavery campaign - May 31, 2016
  • Shrimp, lipstick and toys sales face scrutiny by anti-slavery activists - May 13, 2016
  • 7-Eleven is the tip of the iceberg in worker exploitation. So who's turning a blind eye? - May 12, 2016
  • Labour-hire company licensing scheme recommended - May 5, 2016
  • Difficult distinction between unacceptable work conditions and slavery - Apr 30, 2016
  • Slave rings could be going unpunished: Salvation Army - Apr 18, 2016
  • ‘Slave houses’ hiding in inner-city Brisbane - Apr 17, 2016
  • 'This is happening in Australia': Sydney victim of slavery speaks out - Apr 10, 2016
  • Australia to provide $550,000 to combat human trafficking - Apr 9, 2016
  • 7-Eleven: Fair Work Ombudsman says admit exploitation complicity - Apr 9, 2016
  • Boardrooms 'on notice' to pay attention to their labour supply chains - Apr 9, 2016
  • Fijian seasonal workers told to return to work for contractor accused of exploitation or go home - Mar 27, 2016
  • Exploited farm workers still owed thousands, despite Government's crackdown promise - Mar 23, 2016
  • Migrant crisis: Australia to launch anti-human trafficking and slavery strategy - Mar 21, 2016
  • Australians should be hired alongside foreign workers, says report - Mar 18, 2016
  • Senate committee slams temporary worker abuse a national disgrace, calls for major overhaul of visa programs- Mar 18, 2016
  • Anti-slavery workers say government is failing sex trafficking victims - Mar 16, 2016
  • Cheated workers paid out - Mar 8, 2016
  • Labour hire inquiry hears claims of backpackers' poor living conditions and wage mismanagement - Mar 4, 2016
  • Mushroom farm and labour hire firm to repay $92,000 in underpayment to workers - Mar 2, 2016
  • Backpackers 'targeted by dodgy labour hire companies' in 'culture of impunity' - Mar 2, 2016
  • Migration law expert calls for tougher regulation of labour hire companies - Feb 29, 2016
  • Seasonal farm workers receiving less than $10 a week after deductions, investigation reveals - Feb 26, 2016
  • 7-Eleven workers continue to be exploited - Feb 23, 2016
  • Surf clothing label Rip Curl using 'slave labour' to manufacture clothes in North Korea - Feb 21, 2016
  • Supply, and demand, ethical products - Feb 21, 2016
  • More than 60% of international students in Sydney underpaid – survey - Feb 17, 2016
  • International Student Claims 7-11 Paid Him Just 47 Cents An Hour - Feb 15, 2016
  • Craft brewer caught in Melbourne wage-rort scandal - Feb 12, 2016
  • Exploitation in electronics: Too many companies failing to come clean - Feb 10, 2016
  • Consumers urged to boycott popular electronic brands over worker exploitation concerns - Feb 10, 2016
  • Thermomix, Dyson, HTC: The ethical problem with our electronics - Feb 10, 2016
  • Seasonal Worker Programme expanded to take more Pacific Islander and East Timorese workers for livestock and grain farms - Feb 9, 2016
  • Labor pledges to crack down on employers who exploit workers - Feb 1, 2016
  • Australians urged to fight human trafficking, injustice - Jan 30, 2016
  • Six boatmen jailed in people smuggling case - Jan 15, 2016
  • Labour-hire company faces court over allegations of exploiting Pacific island workers in 416 Visa program - Jan 14, 2016
  • Coast businessman accused of underpaying workers $77,649 - Jan 13, 2016
  • Operation Sovereign Borders monthly update: December 2015 - Jan 12, 2016
  • Alleged people smuggler faces court - Jan 11, 2016
  • Man arrested at Melbourne Airport and charged with people smuggling granted bail - Jan 11, 2016
  • Accused Vic people smuggler bailed - Jan 11, 2016
  • Media Release: Time's up for people smuggler - Jan 11, 2016
  • Beef up workers’ rights to halt exploitation - Jan 11, 2016
  • Captain cries injustice of smuggling case - Jan 7, 2016
  • Probe into MCG supply chain finds alleged exploitation of visa-holders working as cleaners - Jan 7, 2016
  • MCG cleaners 'exploited' in wage rort scandal - Jan 6, 2016

News from 2015

  • Monthly Operational Update: December 2015 - Dec 31, 2015
  • Call for witness protection as Thai human trafficking trial begins - Dec 25, 2015
  • Thai seafood exports to US, Europe and Australia continue apace despite slavery accusations, government says- Dec 22, 2015
  • Thai Union: Australian supermarkets implicated in slave labour accusations against giant seafood company - Dec 22, 2015
  • Dozens of diplomatic staff brought to Australia, working as slaves, campaigners say - Dec 18, 2015
  • Shocking conditions exposed in Federal Government’s Seasonal Worker Program - Dec 16, 2015
  • Calls for Woolworths, Coles, Aldi to cancel Thai Union contracts over slave-labour prawns - Dec 16, 2015
  • Australian supermarkets admit stocking prawns processed using slave labour - Dec 15, 2015
  • Don't buy trawler caught, be wary of imports, and no vannamei: How to avoid eating prawns peeled in a Thai child labour camp (but they'll cost twice as much) - Dec 15, 2015
  • Sexual servitude raids at karaoke bars add sinister edge to worker exploitation - Dec 11, 2015
  • Myer, 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut scandals show many workers don't get a fair go - Dec 10, 2015
  • Eight Australian businesses sign up to tackle forced labour and exploitation - Dec 10, 2015
  • Foreign prawns linked with human trafficking and environmental havoc, says Greenpeace - Dec 9, 2015
  • North Queensland labour hire industry investigated amid allegations of seasonal worker exploitation - Dec 7, 2015
  • Queensland government launches farm worker inquiry - Dec 4, 2015
  • Border 'obsession' opens door to workplace slavery - Dec 2, 2015
  • It’s time to end modern slavery - Dec 2, 2015
  • Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, Select Committee on the Regulation of Brothels Report 1/56 – November 2015 - Nov 30, 2015
  • Myer cleaner sacked for complaining about exploitation gets job back after Federal Court win - Nov 28, 2015
  • Australia’s human trafficking crisis: Forced marriage, labour exploitation are rising - Nov 22, 2015
  • NSW Blues opener Ed Cowan fighting to end misery of slavery and human trafficking - Nov 19, 2015
  • No point expanding Seasonal Worker Scheme without a backpacker visa overhaul, inquiry told - Nov 18, 2015
  • Labour hire, plight of insecure workers to be put under the spotlight - Nov 18, 2015
  • Retail giant Myer turns down Fair Work Ombudsman offer to clear up 'sham contracting' scandal - Nov 18, 2015
  • ‘I was raped 43,200 times’: Human trafficking victim Karla Jecinto tells of harrowing ordeal - Nov 13, 2015
  • Exploited interns forfeit an average of $6000 in wages - Nov 12, 2015
  • Australia and Indonesia: A road to progress on human trafficking? - Nov 12, 2015
  • Baiada sets aside $500,000 after workers paid chicken feed for shifts up to 19 hours - Oct 26, 2015
  • Sex work in South Australia — should it be decriminalised? - Oct 24, 2015
  • Baiada labour hire companies continue to exploit overseas workers despite Fair Work Ombudsman warning - Oct 19, 2015
  • Chinese migrants exploited, treated like 'second-class citizens' - Oct 16, 2015
  • Coalition considering a crackdown on dodgy bosses exploiting foreign workers - Oct 15, 2015
  • 7-Eleven scandal: Greens introduce franchise wages bill - Oct 12, 2015
  • Ping-Pong-a-Thon: Bringing human trafficking to the table - Oct 11, 2015
  • Walk in Lismore to remember the 27 million modern day slaves - Oct 8, 2015
  • Mean Girls: Why Do Australian Feminists Care So Little About the Most Vulnerable? - Oct 6, 2015
  • Interns foot the bill for unpaid work - Oct 6, 2015
  • Human trafficking of workers a growing problem in Victoria - Oct 5, 2015
  • Turnbull government hands off on 'black' labour middle men - Oct 4, 2015
  • 'Nearly impossible' to earn a decent wage at big supplier to Coles and Woolworths - Oct 3, 2015
  • Worker's paradise or black labour haven? - Oct 2, 2015
  • 7-Eleven: New chairman says Australia has widespread wage fraud problem - Oct 1, 2015
  • 'Black jobs': Rampant exploitation of foreign workers in Australia revealed - Oct 1, 2015
  • 7-Eleven to face franchisees with 'everything on table' including store hours - Oct 1, 2015
  • 7-Eleven scandal: Worker exploitation destroys the economy - Oct 1, 2015
  • 7-Eleven: Ceaseless scandal finally forces change - Sep 30, 2015
  • The labour market's dark side – the case for changing worker exploitation - Sep 26, 2015
  • 7-Eleven management vow to fully refund all exploited workers - Sep 24, 2015
  • 7-Eleven admits allowing franchisees to pay whatever rate they liked, Senate hears - Sep 24, 2015
  • 7-Eleven knew of wage fraud ahead of scandals - Sep 24, 2015
  • 7-Eleven workers pay up to $70,000 for visa in indentured labour scheme - Sep 23, 2015
  • 7-Eleven workers need visa protection for speaking out over exploitation: Maurice Blackburn Lawyers - Sep 21, 2015
  • AFP reveals sex trafficking based in Sydney brothels - Sep 13, 2015
  • Laws to prevent worker exploitation thrown into doubt - Sep 11, 2015
  • 7-Eleven: amnesty must apply to all exploited workers - Sep 9, 2015
  • Foreign adoptions 'make children commodities', NGO challenges definition of human trafficking - Sep 8, 2015
  • Senate to probe alleged 7-Eleven underpayments - Sep 8, 2015
  • Melbourne woman settles claim over slavery, sex abuse claims by former maid at US Embassy in Tokyo - Sep 6, 2015
  • No 7-Eleven amnesty yet: Dutton - Sep 3, 2015
  • Service station owner rejected 7-Eleven and United franchises concerned over worker exploitation - Sep 3, 2015
  • 7-Eleven: Labor urges Government to give amnesty to students forced to breach visa rules - Sep 2, 2015
  • 7-Eleven chairman denies widespread wage rorting claims, says 'relatively few' franchisees at fault - Sep 2, 2015
  • Sexual slavery, forced drug-taking in NSW brothels on the rise: police - Sep 1, 2015
  • 7-Eleven investigation: Convenience store empire 'built on something not much different from slavery' - Aug 31, 2015
  • 7-Eleven: Investigation exposes shocking exploitation of convenience store workers - Aug 29, 2015
  • Human trafficking: Most of Australia's alleged sex slavery victims left without government support - Aug 27, 2015
  • Human trafficking: Sex slavery victims risking brutal reprisals to access government support, campaigners say - Aug 26, 2015
  • Manjit Singh case sheds light on abuse of foreign workers - Aug 19, 2015
  • Coroner declares TB death of Indian man Manjit Singh the 'saddest story' - Aug 17, 2015
  • Call for national regulation of labour hire companies in wake of worker exploitation - Aug 13, 2015
  • Officials on hunt for ‘slave boats’ in Torres Strait - Aug 5, 2015
  • PNG checks for more ‘slaves’ on seized ship - Aug 4, 2015
  • From sexual harassment to being underpaid - I've seen how the work-for-visa system is broken - Jul 31, 2015
  • People trafficking probes failed to secure any convictions last year, report finds - Jul 31, 2015
  • 'A battle against evil': Australia urged to act on sex trafficking - Jul 28, 2015
  • US blasts countries over human trafficking - Jul 28, 2015
  • Australia remains a trafficking destination for girls, women: report - Jul 28, 2015
  • Illegal migrant workers could help dob in criminals involved in human trafficking - Jul 28, 2015
  • Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's charities weighed down by Fortescue's falling share price - Jul 27, 2015
  • Reform needed to working holiday visas to prevent exploitation: academic - Jul 20, 2015
  • New visas remove stigma for slavery and human trafficking victims - Jul 20, 2015
  • Andrew Twiggy Forrest throws his support behind anti-slavery cause - Jul 18, 2015
  • Australian and Thai journalists on trial for human trafficking report - Jul 14, 2015
  • Would intervening with adult advertising actually stop sex trafficking? - Jul 10, 2015
  • Community and business need to ask hard questions about organised crime - Jul 7, 2015
  • Manny's story: kidnapped, trafficked to Australia at 14 - Jul 4, 2015
  • Perth symposium spotlights cyber-crime, murder, human trafficking victims - Jun 13, 2015
  • Trading in human lives - Jun 8, 2015
  • 22 illegal workers detained in Lockyer Valley raids as part of foreign worker exploitation crackdown - May 29, 2015
  • Slavery meets Sydney’s elite at Freedom Hub charity event - May 28, 2015
  • Trafficking victims to get English lessons and more welfare, for dishing dirt on king pins - May 27, 2015
  • People trafficking has become world's second biggest illegal market after drugs - May 27, 2015
  • Australia ‘can only offer a bad example’: Human Rights Watch - May 26, 2015
  • Crackdown continues on exploitation of migrant workers on Victorian farms - May 22, 2015
  • Taskforce to target worker exploitation, visa fraud following 'slave labour' revelations - May 18, 2015
  • Federal Government to examine payslips of 417 visa holders to crack down on labour exploitation - May 7, 2015
  • Childers’ traders worried backpacker marker may suffer after farm labour exploitation investigation - May 7, 2015
  • Labour exploitation, slave-like conditions found on farms supplying biggest supermarkets - May 7, 2015
  • Unions call for halt to increase in Australian seasonal work - May 6, 2015
  • SA announces parliamentary inquiry into labour hire industry following Four Corners report - May 6, 2015
  • Local growers say Bundaberg fruit picking reputation tarnished by farm worker exploitation revelations - May 6, 2015
  • Horticulture industry condemns exploitation of workers and proposes photo ID smart card - May 6, 2015
  • 'Backdoor' working visas are leaving migrants at risk, and the Government's response is discouraging - May 6, 2015
  • Slaving Away - May 6, 2015
  • Companies must ensure suppliers don't use forced labour - May 5, 2015
  • Migrant workers in slave-like conditions - May 5, 2015
  • Workplace watchdog aims for top of retailers’ supply chain on worker exploitation - May 5, 2015
  • Victorian Government to begin inquiry into labour exploitation, slave-like conditions after reports of 417 visa abuse - May 5, 2015
  • Slavery in the Australian suburbs: It’s happening but how do we stop it? - Apr 4, 2015
  • Indian cook wins $200,000, kept as slave at Sydney restaurant - Mar 28, 2015
  • Aus backs Thai anti-trafficking policy bid - Mar 26, 2015
  • Tips for girls to flee forced marriages - Mar 19, 2015
  • Wall cavity brothel owners to face penalties - Feb 6, 2015
  • High-tech tools needed to fight modern human traffickers - Feb 3, 2015
  • Australia-Asia program to combat trafficking in persons - Jan 27, 2015
  • The Australian - Probes into slavery, human trafficking rise by 57pc - Jan 9, 2015

News from 2014

  • Child Trafficking on the Rise, UN Report Reveals - Dec 26, 2014
  • Authorities push to shut down Melbourne brothel after discovering Chinese woman hidden in wall - Dec 17, 2014
  • Govt to Crack Down on Human Slavery - Dec 2, 2014
  • Calls for more action on human organ-harvesting trade - Dec 1, 2014
  • Human Trafficking, Sex Slavery Cases in Australia Soar - Oct 31, 2014
  • Surviving the terror of the organ-harvesting trade - Aug 26, 2014
  • Partner migration scheme being used to traffic slaves - May 21, 2014
  • Migrant brides risk exploitation - May 20, 2014
  • 'Violent pimp' Damion St Patrick Baston, who allegedly ran global trafficking ring, worked on Gold Coast - May 5, 2014
  • Asian Slaves to the Australian sex industry - Apr 6, 2014
  • Trafficking: Women lured with student visas forced into sex slavery - Mar 30, 2014
  • Our society must do more to end sexual slavery - Mar 30, 2014
  • Taking on modern slavery and the challenge of making it history - Mar 26, 2014
  • Andrew Forrest's inspiring role in fight against slavery - Mar 19, 2014
  • Australian fund supports Vietnamese women - Feb 19, 2014
  • Report Investigates Help-Seeking Barriers to Women Trapped in Servitude - Feb 4, 2014
  • Campaign group calls for action on 'illegal' adoption of Indian children - Jan 25, 2014
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