Forrests lash Europe’s labour law climbdown

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Grace Forrest, who founded the family-backed anti-slavery campaign group Walk Free, said the EU move could put the skids under an Australian campaign to get the Albanese government to give more teeth to Canberra’s “modern slavery” law. She told The Australian Financial Review from Perth that although that law was a big step forward when it was enacted in 2018, it had ultimately not made real inroads into the problem. That law requires companies to disclose potential forced labour in supply chains – with the restive Chinese province of Xinjiang often cited as a particular risk – but it does...