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Sayomi Ariyawansa

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.

Sayomi Ariyawansa reviews 'Addressing Modern Slavery' by Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma

October 2019, no. 415 25 September 2019
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)