What will government do about slavery in Australia’s supply chain?

Traditional slavery – brutal, controlling, economically appealing – was marked by idiosyncrasies. In ancient Rome, an enterprising slave might, given the appropriate rank or household, be able to seek manumission through saved funds. Slave systems, for all their abominable cruelty and reduction of people to the base level of chattels, encouraged owners to preserve their assets rather than abuse them to ruination.

No such qualifications exist in the modern slave system. As Kevin Bales puts it so aptly, the modern slave is