Building Australia’s Ambition and Impact: Strengthening the response to modern slavery
Today, the Attorney-General, the Hon Michelle Rowland MP, launched the Office of the Australian Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s Strategic Plan 2025-2028, Building Australia’s Ambition and Impact: Strengthening the response to modern slavery.
The Strategic Plan sets the direction for the Commissioner’s Office to support and galvanise stronger, more coordinated action by government, business, and civil society across Australia’s broad national response to modern slavery.
The Plan focuses on four interconnected priorities for the Office:
- Transforming systems to centre survivors and people with lived experience
- Strengthening law and policy
- Driving business and government towards better due diligence
- Improving access to justice and remedy.
The Plan emerged from extensive consultation, with contributions from more than 250 stakeholders, including 34 people with lived experience of modern slavery and the impacts of modern slavery policy. Survivors, advocates, industry leaders, government, and civil society organisations all helped shape the Office's direction.
“Australia has a strong record in tackling modern slavery, both domestically and internationally,” said the Australian Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Chris Evans. “But our consultations established clearly that more needs to be done, and that some things need to be done differently.”
“Building Australia’s ambition and impact means committing to actions that will deliver tangible results for impacted people, supporting them to live their lives in freedom and dignity,” Commissioner Evans said. “This Plan guides how the Office will act as an enabler and catalyst for improvement within Australia’s broader response, helping to prevent exploitation, improve detection, and expand access to justice and remedy.”