Government considers recommendation to ratify international convention making national minimum age 15 with some exceptions
An employment and workplace relations survey in June last year found about 214,500 children aged 15 and under were legally working.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Tabling the report, the committee chair and Labor MP Josh Wilson said Australia had “not exactly moved swiftly to ratify this convention” and would be the 176th country to do so. He said there were three key obligations in the convention.
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