Anti-slavery Forum Agenda
DAY 1
5 November 2025
Arrival
&
Day 1 opens
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration and coffee
09:00 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome to day 1 and housekeeping
Welcome to Country
Opening remarks
Main plenary session
Day 1
09:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote Address and Panel Discussion
Tea break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Tea break and networking - Reflection and relaxation spaces available
Parallel sessions
Block 1
Day 1
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Responsible Business:
Anti-slavery and workers' rights
Prevention:
Paths to prevention: Economic empowerment
Response and Remedy:
Empowering local response [Workshop]
Lunch
12:45 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch and networking
Parallel sessions
Block 2
Day 1
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Responsible Business:
Towards slavery-free domestic agriculture and horticulture [Workshop]
Prevention:
Strengthening service capacity and coordination [Workshop]
Response and Remedy:
Coercion, coercive control and exploitation
Tea break
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Tea break and networking - Reflection and relaxation spaces available
Wellbeing
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Voluntary singalong
Celebration dinner
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
A celebration of community. Commissioner's Commendations, music and dancing
DAY 2
6 November 2025
Arrival
&
Day 2 opens
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration and coffee
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Welcome to day 2
Welcome to Country
Review of day 1
Main plenary session
Day 2
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote Address
Speaker:
Commissioner Micaela Cronin
Australian Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission
Panel Discussion:
Towards the next National Action Plan
Tea break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Tea break and networking - Reflection and relaxation spaces available
Parallel sessions
Block 1
Day 2
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Responsible Business:
What roles should business have in the next NAP?
Prevention:
What roles should governments - federal, state and local - have in the next NAP?
Response and Remedy:
What roles should civil society and survivors have in the next NAP?
Main plenary reporting
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Plenary reporting back from parallel sessions and workshops
Lunch
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch and networking
Parallel sessions
Block 2
Day 2
02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Responsible Business:
Strengthening engagement with workers
Prevention:
Australia's implementation of the non-punishment principle
Response and Remedy:
Tackling barriers to accountability
Tea break
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
Tea break and networking - Reflection and relaxation spaces available
Parallel sessions
Block 3
Day 2
03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Responsible Business:
Sharing supplier information
Prevention:
Training frontline workers
Response and Remedy:
A survivor led panel
Main plenary closing reflections
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Closing session
Closing dinner
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Networking and informal dinner
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Express your interest
The fourth edition of the Anti-slavery Forum, Building Freedom Together.
We acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the first peoples and traditional custodians of Australia and the oldest continuing culture in human history, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We acknowledge that First Nations communities in New South Wales have survived practices that today we call modern slavery and continue to live with its legacies.