Forced removal and modern slavery reports have doubled, lifting Australian human trafficking alerts to an all-time high.

There were 420 reports of human trafficking in the 2024/25 financial year, up from 382 from the previous 12 months, Australian Federal Police data released on Sunday shows.

The 10 per cent year-on-year rise was mainly driven by reports of exit trafficking in Australia spiking from 35 to 75.

Exit trafficking is when coercion, threats or deception are used to exit or attempt to exit a person from a country.

Other notable report rises were for forced marriage (from 91 to 118), sexual servitude slavery (from 59 to 84) and modern slavery (from fewer than five to 12).

Other categories such as forced labour, trafficking in persons, debt bondage and deceptive recruiting rec

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