{"id":283765,"date":"2021-08-22T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/23\/australian-senate-poised-to-pass-bill-banning-imports-made-using-forced-labour"},"modified":"2021-08-23T03:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T03:21:30","slug":"australian-senate-poised-to-pass-bill-banning-imports-made-using-forced-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/22\/australian-senate-poised-to-pass-bill-banning-imports-made-using-forced-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Senate passes bill banning imports made using forced labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Rex Patrick says the onus is now on the Coalition to allow the bill to clear the House of Representatives<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>The Morrison government faces growing pressure to tighten Australia\u2019s customs laws after the Senate passed a bill to ban anyone from importing products made using forced labour.<\/p><p>On Monday the Senate passed a bill proposed by the independent senator, Rex Patrick, but for the measure to come into effect it would also have to clear the government-controlled lower house.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/08\/we-will-respond-in-kind-chinas-ambassador-warns-australia-not-to-join-xinjiang-sanctions\">\u2018We will respond in kind\u2019: China\u2019s ambassador warns Australia not to join Xinjiang sanctions<\/a> <\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jun\/25\/unions-join-call-for-australian-law-prevent-profit-slavery-forced-labour-xinjiang-china\">Unions join call for Australian anti-slavery law to prevent profiting from forced labour, including in Xinjiang<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/23\/australian-senate-poised-to-pass-bill-banning-imports-made-using-forced-labour\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/23\/australian-senate-poised-to-pass-bill-banning-imports-made-using-forced-labour\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Rex Patrick says the onus is now on the Coalition to allow the bill to clear the House of RepresentativesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Morrison government faces growing pressure to tighten Australia\u2019s customs laws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,1730,190,15494,6,1338,1641,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283949,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283765\/revisions\/283949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}