{"id":944736,"date":"2026-10-29T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944736\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:24:13","slug":"australia-can-help-end-exploitation-behind-everyday-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944736\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia can help end exploitation behind everyday products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every morning, millions of Australians wake up, reach for their smartphone, decide on an outfit for work, and stop for a coffee at their local cafe without any visibility into where those products came from or who made them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the sad, stark reality is that behind many of the goods we rely on is a man, woman or child trapped in modern slavery. Often, they are forced to endure gruelling and dangerous work for little to no pay and are threatened with violence and intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every morning, millions of Australians wake up, reach for their smartphone, decide on an outfit for work, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,38983,44],"class_list":["post-944736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-modern-slavery","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}