Broken Promises: Two years of corporate reporting under Australia’s Modern Slavery Act
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Major investigation finds companies are still failing to identify and address obvious modern slavery risks.
A new report Broken Promises: Two years of corporate reporting under Australia’s Modern Slavery Act examines the second year of corporate statements submitted to the Government's Modern Slavery Register by 92 companies sourcing from four sectors with known risks of modern slavery: garments from China, rubber gloves from Malaysia, seafood from Thailand and fresh produce from Australia.
Broken Promises is the follow up report to Paper Promises? Evaluating the early impact of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act, which was released earlier this year. The Modern Slavery Act is currently under a three-year statutory review lead by Professor John McMillan AO, and is due to report in March 2023.
This research was undertaken by the Human Rights Law Centre, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Baptist World Aid and academics from the Australian Human Rights Institute (UNSW Sydney), Business and Human Rights Centre (RMIT), the University of Melbourne, the University of Notre Dame Australia and the University of Western Australia as part of a multi-year collaborative project evaluating company responses to Australia's modern slavery reporting regime.
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This report was co-authored by Freya Dinshaw who works in the Corporate Accountability team at the Human Rights Law Centre. You can learn more about the team's work here.