Modern Slavery Statement

01Our commitment

RIVIRhouse is a Brisbane-based data, cloud, and technology consultancy. We provide senior-led data platform, governance, and architecture services to government and regulated industries across Australia. Modern slavery in all its forms, including forced labour, debt bondage, human trafficking, and the worst forms of child labour, has no place in our business or in the supply chains that support it.

We are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our dealings, to treating the people who work with us fairly, and to taking reasonable and proportionate steps to ensure modern slavery is not taking place in our operations or supply chains. Because much of our inherent risk sits in goods and services we buy rather than in our own workforce, our focus is on responsible procurement, fair employment, and continuous improvement year on year.

02Our structure, operations & supply chains

Structure and operations

RIVIRhouse Pty Ltd (ABN 38 642 120 956) is a privately owned Australian proprietary company, established in 2020 and headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland. We do not own or control any subsidiary entities. Our operations consist of professional consulting services across strategy, architecture, platform engineering, data governance, and analytics. We deliver this work remotely and at client premises, almost entirely within Australia.

Our people

Our workforce is small and highly skilled. Work is performed by directly engaged employees and a small number of Australian-based associate consultants. Everyone who works with us does so under a written agreement, is verified as holding the right to work in Australia, and is paid at or above the relevant Fair Work and award obligations. We consider the risk of modern slavery within our own workforce to be low.

Our supply chain

As a services business, our supply chain is relatively concentrated and weighted toward professional and technology inputs rather than physical goods. Our main categories of spend are:

• Cloud infrastructure and software. Enterprise platforms and SaaS such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Databricks, supplied by large global vendors.
• IT hardware and devices. Laptops, peripherals, and mobile devices manufactured through global electronics supply chains.
• Subcontracted specialists. Australian-based associate consultants engaged for specific deliverables.
• Professional and financial services. Legal, accounting, insurance, banking, and recruitment, sourced domestically.
• Office, travel, and corporate services. Coworking and office facilities, travel, accommodation, telecommunications, and marketing.

03Modern slavery risks in our operations and supply chains

This statement records where we understand modern slavery risk can exist in our business and how we respond to it. We have considered the risk that we may cause, contribute to, or be directly linked to modern slavery.

Operations. The risk within our own operations is assessed as low. Our work is performed by a professional, skilled, and fairly remunerated workforce, directly engaged under written agreements and Australian employment law.

Supply chain. The majority of our spend is with reputable Australian and global enterprise vendors, many of whom maintain their own modern slavery programs and published statements. We recognise that higher inherent risk sits further down our supply chain, particularly in:

• IT hardware and electronics, whose deep, multi-tier global manufacturing can extend into regions and processes with documented labour-exploitation risk (for example raw-material extraction and component assembly).
• Lower-skilled outsourced services such as cleaning, catering, and facilities management associated with office and event spaces, where workers can be more vulnerable.

These higher-risk categories generally sit in the lower tiers of our supply chain, where our purchasing influence is limited and visibility is harder to obtain. We prioritise our due-diligence effort accordingly.

04Actions we take to assess and address risk

We take practical, proportionate steps appropriate to a small professional-services firm:

• Responsible supplier selection. Where we have a choice, we favour established suppliers who maintain their own modern slavery commitments, ethical-sourcing programs, or published statements.
• Contractual expectations. Our subcontractor and supplier engagements set expectations of lawful, ethical conduct and compliance with modern slavery laws, and reserve our right to seek further information where a concern arises.
• Fair employment. We engage our people under written agreements, verify the right to work, pay at or above Fair Work and award obligations, and maintain a safe workplace.
• Awareness. We brief our people on what modern slavery is, the indicators to watch for, and how to raise a concern.
• Grievance and remediation. Anyone, including employees, contractors, suppliers, and members of the public, can raise a concern in confidence at hello@rivirhouse.com. We take all reports seriously, do not tolerate retaliation, and, should we identify that we have caused or contributed to harm, will act to remediate it with the affected person's interests first.

05Assessing the effectiveness of our actions

We assess effectiveness in a way that is proportionate to our size and risk profile. In practice this includes:

• Reviewing our supplier base and concentration of spend to confirm where our material risks sit.
• Confirming that right-to-work and fair-employment checks are completed for everyone engaged.
• Monitoring the grievance channel for reports, with no modern slavery concerns raised to date.
• Reviewing this statement periodically, and refining how we examine higher-risk categories over time.

We treat this as a maturing program. In future periods we intend to strengthen supplier questionnaires for higher-risk categories and continue improving our visibility beyond our direct (tier-one) suppliers.

06Consultation with entities we own or control

RIVIRhouse Pty Ltd does not own or control any subsidiary entities, so consultation with controlled entities is not applicable. This statement was prepared with input from the firm's leadership, who are responsible for our operations, service delivery, and procurement.

07Approval

This statement has been reviewed and approved by the directors of RIVIRhouse Pty Ltd, and addresses the seven mandatory reporting criteria of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth).