Hannah Turl

Jul 24, 2023 | humanrights.gov.au | Lorraine Finlay |Hannah Turl

The key message for businesses to take away from the statutory review into Australia’s Modern Slavery Act is simple – ‘modern slavery reporting is not being taken seriously enough.’  Professor John McMillan AO was tasked with leading the independent review to examine the operation of the Modern Slavery Act three years after its commencement.

Jun 20, 2023 | aspistrategist.org.au | Lorraine Finlay |Hannah Turl

Last month, Canada passed modern slavery laws focused specifically on forced labour and child labour. This comes in the context of an emerging global trend of new national modern slavery laws. In Australia, a statutory review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 has been released and is being considered by the government. Canada’s approach is similar to transparency models used in Australia and the UK, as opposed to stronger due-diligence models adopted by France, Germany and the Netherlands.