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First Peoples
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Article
10 ways employers can include Indigenous Australians
Publisher
Racism
Employee protection
Race discrimination
First Peoples economic conditions
Cultural awareness
Discrimination
Employment Law
Australia
Description
The results of the first large-scale survey of the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at work give plenty of food for thought.
They show that racism and prejudice remain important issues, but there is much more at play – concerned with the “cultural weight” many people feel from being an Indigenous person in a largely non-Indigenous organisation.
The report, called Gari Yala – meaning “speak the truth” in Wiradjuri, the language once spoken over most of what now is inland New South Wales – is based on surveying 1,033 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
The survey was carried out by the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Research and Education at the University of Technology Sydney and Diversity Council Australia, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It has more than 600 corporate members. (Two of those, National Australia Bank and Coles, funded this project.)
Read the full article at The Conversation.
Publication Details
Copyright:
The Conversation Media Group 2020
License type:
CC BY-ND
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
19 Nov 2020
