Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate:

(a)

notes:

(i)

the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act, passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, abolishing slavery in the United Kingdom,

(ii)

the efforts of abolitionist, House of Commons MP, Mr William Wilberforce in leading the campaign against slavery, and

(iii)

that slavery still occurs in some parts of the world, particularly in the trafficking of children and women in the sex trade; and

(b)

records its condemnation of slavery in all its forms.

Question agreed to.