Workforce diversity
Briefing paper
Losing the plot: Do multicultural ghettos inside our film, TV and stage industries affect how culturally diverse communities see themselves?
ECCV is the peak policy advocacy organisation for ethnic and multicultural groups in Victoria and consults with communities when their voices are not heard in the policy process. In October 2016 ECCV consulted with culturally diverse actors, writers, directors and stage professionals in partnership with Actors Equity, one of the most established union and industry...
Report
Seeing ourselves: reflections on diversity in Australian TV drama
Screen Australia has released the most significant study of diversity on Australian screens since television began in 1956.
Report
Behavioural approaches to increasing workforce diversity
This document focuses only on behavioural interventions, not structural changes or policies, such as flexible working arrangements, return-to-work options, cadetships and targeted positions.
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Leading for change: a blueprint for cultural diversity and inclusive leadership
Australia’s multiculturalism is self-evident. About 28% of our population was born overseas, with another 20% having an overseas-born parent. According to one estimate, 32% of the Australian population have a non-Anglo-Celtic background. However, such cultural diversity is not proportionately represented within the senior leadership of our organisations.
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Practical strategies for increasing cultural diversity in broadcast media
Media is a mirror society holds up to itself. Media records our lives and the world around us through news and factual content; it explores our hopes and fears, demons and desires, through creative content. When media represents the stories of only part of a society, it reflects to us a limited and inaccurate sense...