To provide funding to support the implementation of Australia’s National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery 2020‑25 (the National Action Plan), including funding to do the following: (a) undertake activities to equip Australian businesses to manage supply chain risks, including the following activities: (i) developing and hosting industry summits; (ii) developing and delivering training to industry; (iii) developing and maintaining the online Modern Slavery Statements Register; (b) review the Modern Slavery Act 2018, including by commissioning a review of that Act; (c) provide multi‑year grant opportunities to fund: (i) projects to combat modern slavery; or (ii) the development of supply chain resilience of Australian businesses; or (iii) new research to support evidence‑based modern slavery policy; (d) develop and deliver targeted training to: (i) frontline government officials, on identifying and referring modern slavery cases and responding to new modern slavery trends; and (ii) government officials, on addressing modern slavery risks in government procurement and investment; (e) undertake activities to strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation to combat modern slavery in the Indo‑Pacific Region, including the following activities: (i) developing and delivering training and technical assistance to partner governments; (ii) participating in multilateral forums; (f) establish multi‑sector networks in the States and Territories to enhance law enforcement capability, and bolster resources, dedicated to detecting and deterring modern slavery; (g) develop and maintain a website with information and resources about modern slavery, in multiple languages; (h) develop, translate and distribute information and resources for modern slavery victims, multicultural groups and the broader community to understand modern slavery, deter perpetrators and refer cases; (i) develop and deliver national and targeted campaigns to raise community awareness of modern slavery, including the indicators of modern slavery and avenues to report modern slavery offences; (j) engage with modern slavery victims to seek and receive feedback on existing and new, legal and policy, responses to modern slavery; (k) commission the Australian Institute of Criminology to monitor and evaluate the National Action Plan, including by: (i) establishing new data collection processes; and (ii) collecting data on emerging criminal methodologies; and (iii) collecting and analysing monitoring and evaluation data; and (iv) preparing and delivering reports. This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures: (a) with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or (b) to give effect to Australia’s obligations under one or more of the following: (i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, particularly Article 6; (ii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Articles 4, 32, 34, 35 and 36; (iii) the International Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery, particularly Article 2; (iv) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Articles 2 and 8; (v) the International Labour Organization’s Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, particularly Article 1; (vi) the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, particularly Article 9; (vii) the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, particularly Article 9; (viii) the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices similar to Slavery, particularly Article 1; or (c) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or (d) with respect to Australia’s relations with foreign countries; or (e) done in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth. | 