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New measures to stamp out forced marriage

By Elena Leonardos

Media Release Everyone in Australia should be free to choose if, who and when they marry. In 2013 the former Labor government inserted a new offence of forced marriage into the Criminal Code through the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Act 2013, making it illegal for a person to be forced into a … Continued