Damning report on exploitation in Australian fashion industry

By Beau Donelly
Updated April 16 2015 - 7:19pm, first published 6:53pm
Cotton crop worker in Uzbekistan. Photo: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images
Cotton crop worker in Uzbekistan. Photo: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images

Nine out of 10 companies supplying clothes to Australian consumers do not know where their cotton is sourced and most fail to pay overseas workers enough to meet their basic needs, an investigation into the fashion industry shows.

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