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344       Support for Trafficked People Program                                                                                                                To provide legal, medical, housing and other support to people who are reasonably suspected of being victims, and people who are reasonably considered to be at risk of becoming victims, of offences under Division 270 or 271 of the Criminal Code, including where those people are referred from a community service provider or from the Australian Federal Police.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding or support for measures:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) which provide, or are incidental to the provision of, medical services, or unemployment, pharmaceutical or sickness benefits (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) with respect to immigration or emigration; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) to give effect to Australia's obligations under one or more of the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (i) the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, particularly Articles 1, 25, 26, 27 and 31;
                                                                                                                                                               (ii) the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, particularly Articles 1, 6 and 9;
                                                                                                                                                               (iii) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, particularly Articles 2, 3, 5 and 16;
                                                                                                                                                               (iv) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4, 19, 32, 34, 35 and 36;
                                                                                                                                                               (v) the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, particularly Articles 8 and 9;
                                                                                                                                                               (vi) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2, 7, 8 and 23;
                                                                                                                                                               (vii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6, 10 and 11;
                                                                                                                                                               (viii) the International Labour Organization's Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, particularly Article 1;
                                                                                                                                                               (ix) the International Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, particularly Article 2;
                                                                                                                                                               (x) the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, particularly Article 1; or
                                                                                                                                                               (f) taken in, or in relation to, a Territory.