When the Bill that became the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) was introduced into the federal parliament, it was accompanied by a grim message: two centuries after the abolition of the slave trade in the United Kingdom, it is estimated that there are twenty-five million victims of modern slavery worldwide. It also came with a bracing if Panglossian promise: that the Modern Slavery Act would ‘trans ... (read more)
Sayomi Ariyawansa
Sayomi Ariyawansa is a Melbourne lawyer and Research Fellow at the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne. She has published in several academic journals, Eureka Street, and Right Now: Human Rights in Australia, largely on the topics of migration, human rights, labour law and worker exploitation.