Many temporary migrant workers in NSW face "harsh realities", says survivor-advocate Moe Turaga who was enslaved at 17 on a grape farm in Victoria. Video by AAP.
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00:00Many of the people who contact me are temporary migrant workers here in regional New South Wales and are suffering similar exploitation.
00:12During a recent visit with a commissioner to Griffith and in previous years in New South Wales, I have met with many individuals who shared their harrowing experiences.
00:26The situations they presented involved forced labour, debt bondage, trafficking in persons and deceptive recruitment practices.
00:37Too often my brothers, my sisters, they find themselves without access to a set of services and supports when they leave their employment, schemes such as PAM.
00:56Often they leave for their own safety and because the deal they were promised is not the deal they are given once they arrive.