Cultural diversity
Strategy
Diversity, equity and inclusion strategy 2025–28
This strategy outlines the Department's commitment to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and are safe, valued and empowered to succeed. It sets out a vision and four strategic pillars: Respected, Connected, Contributing and Progressing. A strategic framework for action is provided for each pillar.
Essay
The future of Australian multiculturalism
This collection of essays explores the current state and future prospects of multiculturalism in Australia. It considers if and how the traditional model of multiculturalism may be weakening as it faces significant challenges from geopolitical conflict and an increasingly politicised population.
Report
An anti-racism framework: experiences and perspectives of multicultural Australia
Racism is common and normalised in Australia according to this report, which presents recommendations made in consultation with over 1200 people with lived experience of racism. Participants call for the urgent implementation of a robust anti-racism framework in Australia, with education, institutions, public discourse and public leadership as the key pillars.
Report
The way in: representation in the 47th Australian Parliament
By exploring representation through demographic lenses this analysis seeks to understand the pathways to political power. l finds the 47th Federal Parliament to be the most gender-equal and culturally diverse yet, although still not as culturally, linguistically or economically diverse as the people it represents.
Report
Incentivising Australian screen diversity
This report outlines different models of incentivising diversity across Australia’s screen industries. It proposes four models to encourage the screen sector to employ more people who identify as women, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), First Nations Australians, LGBTIQ+, and people with a disability, and in doing so improve the representation of all Australians in the...