Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Featured pages Featured pages Featured pages Featured pages 22 February 2021 The Biden administration says it will talk with the Morrison government about tackling Chinaâs âhuman and labour rights abusesâ, as the United States offered qualified support for a new Australian bill to ban imports from the Xinjiang region. ... The bill, proposed by the South Australian independent senator Rex Patrick, would prohibit the importation into Australia of goods from Xinjiang province âas well as goods from other parts of China that are produced by using forced labourâ. .. The anti-slavery group Be Slavery Free has told the Senate inquiry that the Australian Modern Slavery Act that passed the parliament in 2018 âis not sufficient to address issues such as state-sanction forced labour and human traffickingâ.