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Australia's Modern Slavery Act requires businesses to report on the risks of modern slavery in their supply chains, but a new report has found these measures are failing A coalition of human rights organisations and academics are calling on the federal government to overhaul Australia�s modern slavery laws. A major investigation has found, three years into the Modern Slavery Act�s operation, that companies still fail to identify obvious modern slavery risks in their supply chains or take action to address them. The report, Broken Promises: Two years of corporate reporting under Australia�s Modern Slavery Act, examines the second year of corporate statements submitted to the government�s Modern Slavery Register. The statements are from 92 companies sourced from four sectors with known risks of modern slavery: garments from China, rubber gloves from Malaysia, seafood from Thailand and fresh produce from Australia.

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