Modern slavery exceptionalism: Australia's response to human trafficking and slavery and the remedy gap

This thesis asks whether people who are at risk of, or subject to, modern slavery in Australia have access to effective remedies. Australia’s 2020–25 National Action Plan to Combat Modern Slavery declares that ‘[w]e must afford victims and survivors of modern slavery access to effective remedies’, a promise which evokes Australia’s international obligations to ensure victims of human rights violations have the right to an effective remedy. In examining whether survivors of modern slavery in Australia can access remedies, this thesis examines the procedural and substantive aspects of the right to an effective remedy and scrutinises the role of Australia’s migration system in tolerating and exacerbating modern slavery risks.