Link to Women of Colour's workplace survey report.

This landmark survey collects the experiences of diverse women of colour in Australian workplaces.

A total of 543 women of colour completed the survey, with 7% identifying as being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Most respondents (70%) were between 25 and 34 and 70% worked full-time. Questions were not mandatory, so some questions had fewer answers than others. The women reported being employed in more than 250 different roles, and those who did not identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander had heritage from more than 60 different nations.

Most of the women who responded had experienced discrimination in the workplace (60%) while 40% had not. While 30% believed their identity as a woman of colour was valued in the workplace, 43 % did not, and the remainder answered “maybe”.

Most respondents (57%) felt they had faced challenges in the workplace related to their identity as a woman of colour, while 21% did not believe so and the remainder were unsure (answered ‘maybe’). While 59 % said their workplace had a diversity and inclusion policy, 22% said it did not, and the remainder were unsure.

The majority of respondents (57.61%) said the leader of their organisation was a man, not a person of colour, followed by a woman, not a person of colour, (25.63%) with just over 2% saying they were the organisation’s leader and 6.58% saying the leader was a woman of colour.

Many of the women responding named ‘mentoring’ as a key need for future development in their careers, and other suggestions included networking, counselling, and structural change.

Putting out the Welcome Mat (opens in new window)

Putting out the Welcome Mat supports organisations to develop plans, initiatives, policy documents, partnerships and ideas to create a sense of welcome in local communities.

It is designed to be used alongside The Standard for Welcoming Cities (opens in new window, PDF, 21.8MB) which is a central element of Australia’s Welcoming Cities network. This guide is structured around The Standard’s six categories:

1. Leadership
2. Social and Cultural Inclusion
3. Economic Development
4. Learning and Skills Development
5. Civic Participation
6. Places and Spaces

Professor Naomi Priest and Roxanne Jones from the Australian National University present a webinar looking at the impact of racism on health. The webinar features young people from the Youth Steering Group sharing their lived experiences.

Racism, Racial Discrimination and Child and Youth Health Report (opens in new window)

This report focuses on Australian data collected in the last five years (2016–2020) and underscores the high prevalence of racial discrimination experienced by children and young people.

The report presents a series of interventions to reduce the impacts of racism on health. It highlights the under-utilisation of existing data and the need for investment in data analysis to inform future action across policy, research and practice.

Link to resource (PDF, 803KB).

The guide is part of the Law Society’s work in promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It contains practical tools that can assist legal practices in NSW to identify and eliminate discriminatory recruitment and employment practices. The guide provides helpful insights to enable law firms and other organisations to engage in best practice to promote a truly diverse and fair workplace.

Link to resource.

The Australian High School Anti-racism Kit is a tool made by Australian high school students, for Australian high school students, that we can use to take down racism brick by brick.

The creators of the tool made it because they want to build a future that doesn’t need anti-racism kits in the first place. As they say:

"For us, as recently graduated high school students of colour, we support anti-racism because we’re not happy to settle for ‘not being racist’.

We want to be anti-racist – to deliberately work towards breaking down the racism we’ve experienced personally and institutionally in our broader communities and society.

And you should too. Racism certainly affects either you or the people around you. It is a root cause of serious political, social, and economic injustices in our society, and it trickles down to the day-to-day experiences of harassment and discrimination.

We’re here to support you in creating change. There aren’t many anti-racism resources for Australian high school students that are actionable.

This kit – a collection of strategies, resources, and guides – tries to fill that gap. This kit offers tangible strategies to reduce racism in self, schools and societies."

You can also buy a copy of the book resource here (link opens in new window).

Link to Incarceration Nation's website.

The Incarceration Nation website provides access to the film Incarceration Nation, a story of Indigenous strength and resistance in the face of racism and oppression. The film lays bare the story of the continued systemic injustice and oppression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on their own land, told by Indigenous Australians.

The website provides a comprehensive resource hub which includes news, testimonials, think pieces and Incarceration Nations impact campaign, including information on how to effectively take action to drive meaningful shifts in Australia’s justice system.

Link to Article.

Luke Person debunks the myth of ‘anti-white racism’ by unpacking the history of race and racism and the relationship between racism and power.

Link to managing psychosocial hazards website. 

NSW Government Safe work Code of Practice for Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work is intended to be read by persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), usually an employer or business, and those who have duties under the WHS Act. It provides practical guidance on the process a PCBU could use to identify and to manage psychosocial hazards at work.

This code of practice is recommended for those who have functions or responsibilities that involve managing, so far as is reasonably practicable, exposure to psychosocial hazards and risks to psychological and physical health and safety at work.

Link to systemic racism article.

IndigenousX writers Luke Pearson & Mick O’Loughlin outline 10 important points about systemic racism, debunking misconceptions and highlighting the need for active anti-racism.