Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher OP has condemned the New South Wales Government for ‘disgraceful and undemocratic’ conduct for its failure to enact anti-slavery legislation in NSW two years after the NSW Anti-Slavery Act was unanimously passed by Parliament and given Royal Assent in 2018.

“NSW was offering the nation and the world a lead in this, by holding [itself] to a higher standard than many. Yet here we are, two years later, and that law has still not come into force,” Archbishop Fisher said.

The Archbishop’s condemnation came at the launch of the inaugural 2019-2020 Australian Catholic Anti-Slavery Network report on 29 July.

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