UNSAVOURY TREATMENT
Solanda’s Australian husband was verbally and physically abusive. He abandoned her with their newborn baby in Thailand, penniless, homeless and unable to return to Australia.
UNETHICALLY SOURCED
Sajida was brought here by an Australian couple and had her passport immediately confiscated. She was forced to work long hours as a nanny, cook and maid. She was not allowed to leave the house or to see a doctor or dentist. She had no money, no friends and felt desperate, depressed and exhausted.
TWISTED MORALS
Zara was sponsored to come to Australia from the Middle East on a Partner Visa, by her husband, Hamdi. She moved into his family’s home and was forced into constant labour, mistreated and degraded by her in-laws. She was confined to the house. Hamdi was abusive and violent. He took her back to the Middle East, under false pretences, and abandoned her there.
REMOVES RIGHTS
Rohit was brought to Australia from India to work on a temple in NSW. He was promised decent wages in return for his stonemasonry skills. Once he arrived his passport was confiscated. He was forced to live on the construction site in a shipping container behind locked gates and barbed wire, working seven days a week.
HUMAN
BEINGS
FOR
SALE?
Yes. It’s 2024 and slavery still exists, right here in Australia. People are being bought, sold and treated like property. Human beings brought here from other countries under false pretences, their passports confiscated by traffickers. And people in Australia drawn into slave-like conditions. They’re forced to work in factories, farms, restaurants, on building sites and in people’s houses.
As cheap labour, domestic servants and in sexual exploitation. For long hours, seven days a week, with little or no pay and no hope of escape. Facing constant abuse, threats and violence.
In total, up to 41,000 people are being kept in slave-like conditions, right here in Australia.
It’s shocking, heart-breaking and we need to take action to fight it.
