00:05Over two years and six public hearings, migrant workers and their families have claimed modern
00:11slavery is rife across Australia.
00:14I know that our people desperately need the money to support their families, but that
00:24doesn't mean that they have to live like pigs.
00:28A New South Wales inquiry today backed these concerns, claiming migrant workers are facing
00:34forced labour, debt bondage and even sexual servitude.
00:38I'd be shocked to think that we invite people here to work, they come here to work to help
00:44us and we treat them this badly.
00:47The report places much of the blame on dodgy labour hire companies who use the limited regulation
00:52in New South Wales to exploit migrant workers.
00:55It recommends the state adopt a similar approach to Victoria by establishing an authority and
01:00licensing scheme to hold those companies accountable.
01:03There is so much compelling evidence that shows that this will actually really be a significant
01:09way to clean up many of the issues.
01:12Labour hire syndicates in Coffs Harbour are at the centre of the most serious allegations
01:16of modern slavery.
01:18The good farmers will be the most shocked.
01:20I know that they'll be disgusted with the behaviour of the few that are bringing the
01:24rest of them down.
01:25The government's being urged to put more funding into multicultural centres which have
01:29been left to pick up the pieces.
01:31Like every Wednesday afternoon I get up to seven or eight people coming in on all sorts
01:36of enquiries.
01:37They have a very negative view of Australia because of all the suffering they've gone through.
01:41No longer suffering in silence.
01:43No longer suffering in silence.
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