Modern Slavery & Human Rights Statement

How Geekworks sources the hardware it sells and services, where the real human-rights risk sits in that supply chain, and what a business of our size does about it.

Geekworks  ·  ABN 53 406 183 052  ·  Australian sole trader
Statement period: 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2026 (FY2025–26)  ·  Version 1.0
Approved by the owner on 9 September 2026

1. Purpose and scope

Geekworks is a small, Australian-owned and Australian-operated business. We are not a reporting entity under the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) — our consolidated revenue is well below the AU$100 million threshold — and we are not required to lodge a modern slavery statement.

We publish this statement voluntarily. Many of our customers are reporting entities, and they are entitled to understand the supply chain they inherit when they buy through us. We also think a business of our size should still be able to say plainly where its goods come from and what it does about the risk of forced labour, child labour and other forms of modern slavery.

This statement is structured against the seven mandatory criteria in section 16 of the Act, so that it can be read directly alongside the statements of our larger customers and suppliers.

It covers the financial year 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, and describes our operations, supply chain and controls as they stand at the date of approval. Where we have committed to introduce something, we have said so and given a date rather than implying it is already in place.

2. Our structure, operations and supply chain

Structure

Geekworks is the registered business name of an Australian sole trader (ABN 53 406 183 052), based at 2/412 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo, Queensland 4151. The business has traded continuously under this name since March 2007.

There is no corporate group and no company structure. We own and control no other entities, hold no interest in any other business, and have no overseas subsidiaries, branches, offices or joint ventures. The owner is directly accountable for every purchasing and employment decision described in this statement.

Our people

We are a team of six. Every member of our workforce is located in Australia and engaged directly by us. We do not use labour hire, offshore outsourcing, offshore contact centres, or offshore development or support contractors. No part of our workforce is recruited through third-party or overseas labour agents.

What we do

• Apple Authorised Service Provider — in-warranty and out-of-warranty repair of Apple hardware
• Apple Authorised Reseller — sale of Apple hardware, accessories and software
• Sale of third-party IT hardware and accessories
• Managed IT services, support and consulting for business, education and not-for-profit customers

Our supply chain

Substantially all of our purchasing is from Australian entities:

• Apple Pty Limited — genuine service parts, warranty programme and product supply under our Apple Authorised Service Provider and Apple Authorised Reseller agreements.
• Australian authorised distributors — Ingram Micro Pty Ltd, Synnex Australia and Dicker Data — for hardware, accessories and software.
• Australian service providers — telecommunications, insurance, accounting, freight and courier, premises, and software subscriptions.

We commission no manufacturing. We hold no commercial relationship with any factory, place no production orders, and specify no manufacturing process. Everything we sell is a finished, branded product made by its manufacturer for general sale.

Limited direct purchasing. For a small proportion of our range — principally accessories and consumables not carried by our Australian distributors — we occasionally purchase from overseas suppliers directly. We disclose this rather than describe our supply chain as wholly domestic. The controls we apply to that purchasing are set out in section 4.

3. Modern slavery risks in our operations and supply chain

We do not dispute that the ICT hardware sector carries genuine and well-documented modern slavery risk. It does. But it is worth being precise about where in the chain that risk sits, and how much of it a business in our position can see or influence.

Upstream risk — beyond our direct suppliers

• Raw material extraction. Cobalt, tin, tantalum, tungsten, gold and mica are mined in regions including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Myanmar and India, where artisanal mining is associated with child labour and debt bondage.
• Component manufacture and final assembly, concentrated in China and elsewhere in Asia. Documented risks include excessive and involuntary overtime, restrictions on freedom of movement, state-linked labour transfer programmes, and debt bondage arising from recruitment fees charged to migrant workers.
• International freight and logistics, where seafarer labour conditions are a recognised risk.

These risks sit several tiers upstream of a small Australian reseller. We have no visibility of, and no leverage over, individual manufacturing sites. Our practical influence is exercised through who we choose to buy from, and that is where our controls are concentrated.

Our own operations — assessed as low risk

Our workforce is Australian, directly engaged, and paid under the applicable award or agreement. We do not engage migrant labour through third-party recruiters, do not operate a seasonal or high-turnover low-skill labour pool, and do not procure cleaning, security or facilities labour through low-cost subcontracting chains.

Our direct suppliers — assessed as low risk

Substantially all of our tier 1 spend is with large Australian entities that are themselves reporting entities under the Act, that publish their own modern slavery statements, and that operate their own supplier due diligence and audit programmes.

Our limited direct purchasing — assessed as moderate risk, and actively managed

Our occasional direct purchasing of accessories and consumables sits outside the due diligence umbrella of Australian distribution, and we treat it as the highest-risk element of our own supply chain. It is a small proportion of our spend, is confined to finished branded goods rather than commissioned manufacture, and is subject to the controls in section 4.

4. Actions taken to assess and address these risks

Channel discipline

We buy through authorised Australian distribution rather than grey market or parallel import. This is the single most material control available to a business of our size: it keeps the goods we supply inside supply chains governed by Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct and by our distributors’ own due diligence programmes, and it keeps our customers inside those same protections.

Controls over direct purchasing

• Direct purchasing is limited to finished, branded goods from established suppliers. We do not commission manufacture and do not buy unbranded or white-label product for resale.
• Direct purchasing is approved by the owner rather than left to open discretion.
• We are introducing a short supplier declaration for direct overseas suppliers, covering the prohibition of forced labour, child labour and worker-paid recruitment fees. In place by 31 December 2026.
• Where an equivalent product becomes available through Australian authorised distribution, we move to that channel.

Contractual framework

Our Apple Authorised Service Provider and Apple Authorised Reseller agreements bind us to Apple’s channel compliance requirements, including compliance with applicable labour and employment law, and govern the parts and product we are permitted to source. Apple’s own Supplier Code of Conduct — which applies to the manufacturing supply chain behind the products we sell — prohibits forced, bonded and involuntary prison labour and child labour, prohibits the charging of recruitment fees to workers and requires reimbursement where fees have been charged, and is backed by an audit programme that Apple reports on annually.

Reliance on and review of upstream programmes

We obtain and review the published modern slavery statements of our major suppliers and keep current copies on file. Apple, Ingram Micro, Synnex and Dicker Data are all substantial Australian operations subject to the Act’s reporting threshold, and their statements can be verified independently on the Australian Government’s Modern Slavery Statements Register at modernslaveryregister.gov.au. We encourage customers assessing us to check them directly rather than take our word for it.

Our own policies

• Code of conduct — sets the standards of behaviour expected of everyone who works at Geekworks.
• Work health and safety policy — governs the safety of our workplace and of the work we perform on customer sites.
• Whistleblower and grievance process — a documented route for raising concerns, including anonymously, with protection from retaliation.
• This statement — issued to all staff and published publicly.

Employment practices

• Compliance with the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), the National Employment Standards, and correct award or agreement rates and superannuation.
• Right-to-work verification for all new starters.
• No unpaid work and no unpaid trials.
• No withholding of identity documents, and no deposit, bond or fee of any kind charged to a worker as a condition of engagement.
• Freedom of association respected.

Staff awareness and training

All staff receive a modern slavery and human rights awareness briefing covering what modern slavery is, where it arises in electronics supply chains, our purchasing rules, and how to raise a concern. The briefing forms part of induction for new starters and is repeated annually. Attendance is recorded. The first briefing under this statement was delivered on 9 September 2026.

Grievance and reporting

Any worker, supplier, customer or member of the public can raise a modern slavery or human rights concern by emailing compliance@geekworks.com.au or by speaking to the owner directly. Concerns may be raised anonymously. This mailbox is monitored by the owner. We do not tolerate retaliation of any kind against a person who raises a concern in good faith.

Customer commitments

We accept modern slavery and human rights clauses in customer supply agreements, and we complete customer supplier questionnaires and self-assessments on request.

5. How we assess effectiveness

Our measures are deliberately proportionate to our size. Each year we:

• the owner reviews and re-approves this statement;
• confirm that a current modern slavery statement is on file for each major supplier;
• review all direct overseas purchasing for the year, and confirm that supplier declarations are held;
• record which staff have completed the awareness briefing;
• review the register of concerns raised and how each was resolved — nil to date; and
• review the customer questionnaires and assessments we have completed, and act on any findings.

6. Consultation with owned or controlled entities

Not applicable. Geekworks is a sole trader and owns or controls no other entities, so there are no entities to consult.

7. Other relevant information

At end of life, hardware we remove from customer sites is disposed of through licensed Australian e-waste recyclers and manufacturer take-back programmes, rather than exported to informal recycling markets where hazardous and exploitative labour conditions are documented.

We keep this statement current. If our operations, supply chain or purchasing channels change materially, we will update it rather than let it stand unchanged.

Approval

This statement was approved by the owner of Geekworks on 9 September 2026. As a sole trader, the owner is the approving authority for this statement and is personally responsible for the commitments it contains.