Australia Has 41,000 Modern Slaves: Report

Former slave Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos demonstrates how he clears brush with his sickle on a piece of land in Monsenhor Gil, Brazil, on April 8, 2015. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Australia currently has around 41,000 modern slaves, which is twice the figure recorded five years ago, a human rights report has shown.

Walk Free, an international human rights group based in Perth has released the 2023 Global Slavery Index, raising the alarm about the state of modern slavery worldwide.