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Countries that commit ‘egregious’ human rights abuses to face financial sanctions, travel bans from Australia
Australia will follow several other Western nations and introduce a tough new sanctions regime to make it easier for the federal government to seize the...
Backbenchers from across the parliament have been pressing the government to introduce its own version of the US Magnitsky Act, which the US government developed to target “human rights abusers, kleptocrats and…
- Stephen Dziedzic
- ABC
A bipartisan parliamentary committee also recommended the government press ahead back in December last year, but ministers and senior officials have spent several months wrestling with the issue.
In a statement, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the government would “reform and…