Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that 25 March 2007 was the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade;

(b)

calls on the Government to:

(i)

work for the eradication of the modern day version of slavery, the trafficking of humans for the sex industry in Australia, and

(ii)

allocate sufficient funds for eradicating this form of slavery through prosecution of traffickers and support for the victims of this crime, noting that the current budget of $20 million for this work runs out in June 2007; and

(c)

congratulates the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans for its work in the fight against trafficking, including its publication warning women in Thailand about the dangers of working in the Australian sex industry.

Question put.