Submission by Dr Anna Hayes, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University. Ref. Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced by Uyghur Forced Labour) Bill 2020, 3 February 2021.
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States like Australia must act to end the creeping genocide and forced labour in Xinjiang. We must follow in the steps of past Prime Ministers such as Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke – leaders who acted decisively in the face of oppression and gross human rights abuses. What is unfolding in Xinjiang is the largest detention of an ethnic group since the Holocaust. We must act and this Bill is an important measure that will increase pressure on Beijing to cease these actions. It will also encourage other states to follow suit. Beijing will not reverse its current course without continued scrutiny, pressure and hits to its financial bottom-line. Actions such as these will also force change within global companies that are using Xinjiang’s forced labour as part of their supply chain. This Bill should prompt a review of Australia-China relations, and other human rights violations such as those occurring in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong also warrant further attention. Their inclusion in an amendment to the proposed Bill is also strongly recommended. I also suggest extending the Bill to include ‘services’, making it ‘goods and services’.
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