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Greg Fleming: National MP on the cross party support for the Modern Slavery Bill · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Proving we can all agree on something. I guess the
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  Speaker 2: Nets and Labor have joined to speed up the process
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  Speaker 2: of modern slavery Members Bill now the keys that's some
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  Speaker 2: members bill. Essentially, it forces large businesses to report how
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  Speaker 2: they identify and managed slavery risks in their supply chains.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Fleming is the national impid charge of this particular
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  Speaker 2: builders with us, Greg morning, good morning you in complete
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  Speaker 2: alignment or is it all in the detail?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much in alignment, but there will be a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of detail threasts out at the Select committee stage, which
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  Speaker 3: hopefully we'll get in too.
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  Speaker 2: Fast just to explain people but without boring them because
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  Speaker 2: it's a members' bill process, no time debate, speed of bill,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. If you can get the sixty one on board,
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  Speaker 2: we're in business. That's how it works, right, It's correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just basically means that we skip the biscuit tin.
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  Speaker 3: It also means that we ask the Business Committee to
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  Speaker 3: throw us up to the top of the order paper,
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  Speaker 3: which means we should be able to heir first, reading
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  Speaker 3: first Member's Day about two and a half weeks, we'll
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  Speaker 3: go for a hopefully a shortened Select Committy process, and
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  Speaker 3: the aimers that we'll be able to have this in
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  Speaker 3: law by a sort of third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand ax objection?
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  Speaker 3: I sure do. Yeah. Yeah. So I've been working on
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  Speaker 3: this for several years, and in part of that, I've
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  Speaker 3: done and of consultation with businesses that will be affected
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  Speaker 3: by this, and I do hear their concerns, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: certainly not a fan of regular business regulation for the
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  Speaker 3: sake of regulation. So what we've done is taking a
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  Speaker 3: lot of learnings from overseas experience, particularly in Australia, because
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  Speaker 3: they've been at this for about seven or eight years
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  Speaker 3: now and have had a substantive review quite recently. And
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  Speaker 3: so we're going to be going with templateforms in the
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  Speaker 3: light just to ensure this really does add value rather
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  Speaker 3: than just cost.
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, this is the weird thing. It seems esoteric
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  Speaker 2: to me. I mean, so you go to the warehouse,
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  Speaker 2: how far down the chain, how many countries, how many
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  Speaker 2: factories do they need to explore to convince the authorities
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  Speaker 2: whoever they are, that there isn't modern slavery and the
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  Speaker 2: Air five dollars ninety nine t shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's about getting businesses actually looking at it. So
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  Speaker 3: a lot of responsible businesses already are in which case
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  Speaker 3: this is actually going to be quite a simple process
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  Speaker 3: for them. It's like any kind of frameworks in law,
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  Speaker 3: it's always aimed at those the reculcitrants. And so you
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  Speaker 3: just create a culture within a business where this is
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  Speaker 3: actually something that they take account of when they are
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  Speaker 3: setting out and renewing their supply chains.
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  Speaker 2: Who's enforcing it?
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  Speaker 3: This will sit within MB and then the commissioner role
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  Speaker 3: will sit within the Human Rights Commission.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, n Ie, talk to you, Greg Greb
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  Speaker 2: Fleming Modern So it's good. It's it's got social media
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  Speaker 2: band written all over it, hasn't it. You'll feel good
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  Speaker 2: on a Friday night at the pub with your mate too.
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  Speaker 2: Look what I did in reality does at work. I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have thought. It stands a.
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