Challenging Racism Project webpage

The Challenging Racism Project Team offer a range of services to assist organisations in identifying and responding to issues of diversity and anti- racism in a range of sectors including corporate, government, sporting and education.

Their packages can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders in promoting best practice in managing and promoting diversity. Each package focuses on understanding and identifying racism as well as evidence-based strategies to counter racist incidents that take place in personal, work and public settings. The packages are based on leading research and carefully developed with years of training and facilitation experience.

Challenging Racism Project webpage 

The Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights webpage 

The Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights conducts a range of training programs aimed at increasing the cultural competency and capacity of companies, governing bodies and civil society organisations in Australia.  

Their training programs include, Understanding Islam and family violence, Islam and working with Muslim communities and Early and forced marriage.

AIDA’s Cultural Safety Training webpage 

AIDA’s Cultural Safety Training, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in Clinical Practice (ATSIHiCP), is clinically focussed and designed to assist medical practitioners integrate cultural safety into their practices to improve healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.  

ATSIHiCP equips Registrars and Fellows in any specialty with the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to integrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander holistic health and cultural safety into everyday clinical practice.  

Through developing a greater understanding of Indigenous health perspectives and by undertaking a process of investigating their own perceptions, participants commence the important steps of critical self-reflection. The program aims to inspire participants to change their own clinical practice and become an agent for change for others.

AIDA’s Cultural Safety webpage 

AIDA’s Cultural Safety promotes culturally safe learning environments for Indigenous students, doctors and service delivery to patients.

Australian Human Rights Commission webpage on vicarious liability (opens in new window) 

Employers can be held legally responsible for acts of discrimination or harassment that occur in the workplace or in connection with a person’s employment.

This is known as vicarious liability.

This guide provides information about vicarious liability for employers and steps to prevent workplace discrimination and harassment.

Ten steps you can take to create a fair and productive workplace resource

This guide from the Australian Human Rights Commission provides employers with ten practical and effective steps to create a fair and productive workplace.

Australian Human Rights Commission guide to preventing discrimination during the recruitment process (opens in new window).

Employers recruit in different ways. Some may use in-house human resources personnel; others may hire a recruitment agent to short-list the applicants and help select the successful candidate.

If you use your own staff to recruit, you must make sure they are aware of their obligations under the law and are dedicated to a fair process.

If you use a recruitment agent, you must make sure the agent is aware of their legal obligations when it comes to discrimination.

Link to factsheet 

Guide to discrimination laws.

There are federal, state and territory laws in Australia to protect people from discrimination and harassment.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has statutory responsibilities under the Age Discrimination Act 2004, Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986, Disability Discrimination Act 1992, Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

In addition to the federal legislation, each state and territory in Australia has equal opportunity and anti-discrimination agencies, with statutory responsibilities.

Commonwealth laws and the state/territory laws generally overlap.

However, the laws apply in different ways and employers must comply with all legislation.

Employers also need to check the exemptions and exceptions in Commonwealth and state or territory legislation.

An exemption or exception under one Act does not mean employers are exempt under another Act.