The 'Building Belonging' materials are made for various places like preschools, kindergartens, day-cares, and primary schools. They are intended to help Australian early childhood educators teach kids about respecting different cultures and diversity. The resources are designed to help kids reach learning goals set by the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum.  

These resources satisfy requirements of the National Quality Standard and are linked to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Additionally, these resources support the fulfillment of children’s rights principles outlined in Early Childhood Australia’s Statement of Intent ‘Supporting young children’s rights’. 

You can download the full toolkit in either PDF or Word documents as a ZIP file by accessing the "Building Belonging Toolkit PDF" and "Building Belonging Toolkit Word" links below. Alternatively, you will find the download links for each individual resource on the Commission website. 

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• Building Belonging Toolkit PDF (23 MB) 

• Building Belonging Toolkit Word (38 MB) 

The curriculum resources available on this website form a vital educational platform focusing on Australia's history, particularly Indigenous perspectives, and the impact of colonization. Tailored for educators and individuals, it provides diverse resources, including videos and articles, fostering reconciliation, and improving racial literacy. With a user-friendly interface and a commitment to truth-telling, it encourages community engagement and regular updates.

The ultimate goal of a cultural temperature check is the creation of a culturally safe and racially equitable workplace environment through practical, meaningful, and active anti-racism strategies.

A cultural temperature check should identify any structural barriers, risks, or issues in relation to the current promotion and implementation of cultural diversity and anti-racism in your workplace. As well as this, it should seek to foster self-reflection by engaging with staff at all levels on the impacts of power and privilege. 

The Australian Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC’s) Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool is a great first step to assessing the current level of cultural inclusivity within your organisation. This tool can be used in tandem with this guide (available for download below) to conduct a comprehensive check of your organisation. These resources are directly geared towards creating positive change and embedding anti-racism in the workplace.

You can access and read more about the Anti-Colonial Research Library on their website.

Race is a social construct, which means that racial difference is given different meaning in different contexts in order to perform specific functions. For that reason, there is no ‘one-size fits-all’ approach to anti-racism. Instead, anti-racism should respond to the ways in which race and racism are deployed in particular contexts.

There have been many forms of anti-racist action and advocacy over the long history of anti-racism. It is likely that no single approach may be effective on its own.

This guide provides some insights gained through the process of developing the 2022 Racism. It Stops With Me campaign. The Australian Human Rights Commission is indebted to those who provided their expertise through consultations, scholarship and expert advice, much of which has informed this guide.

Conversations about the referendum and proposed Voice to Parliament have the potential to be harmful for First Nations peoples. The Australian Human Rights Commission’s Voice referendum resources seek to minimise harm by encouraging cultural humility and focusing the conversation on human rights principles as they relate to the referendum and proposed Voice to Parliament.

There are nine documents in the resource kit – available to download in full on the Commission's website.

The stand-alone resources are available for individual download on the webpages linked below:

• The Uluru Statement from the Heart.
• Minimising harm in conversations about the referendum.
• Indigenous Rights & the Voice.
• The history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples advocating for the right to be heard.
• Symbolic change or substantive reform.
• Self-determination and Indigenous peoples.
• The Voice and human rights.
• Referendums and constitutional change.
• Support services.

Acknowledgements

The Commission thanks IndigenousX, a 100% Indigenous owned and operated media, consultancy and training organisation, for their generous guidance and expertise on this project until mid-June 2023. The Commission was grateful for the opportunity to partner with IndigenousX due to their impartial and non-partisan position on the upcoming referendum and demonstrated understanding of the Commission’s independent and statutory role. Further, IndigenousX's insights into the nature of race and racism in Australia along with their dedication to ensuring careful consideration of and respect for Indigenous rights, knowledges, and experiences, proved invaluable to the development of these resources. 

The Commission also thanks Saltwater People, an Indigenous-owned, full-service creative agency that delivers strategic design communications and cross-cultural engagement. Throughout the development of this resource kit, they generously provided expertise in best practice cross-cultural engagement, Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and visual communication.

Please note, the artwork accompanying this kit is © Paul Bong.

In response to these issues, the Australian Human Rights Commission (the Commission) convened a roundtable of representatives from across the Australian sporting sector, and anti-racism experts, to discuss opportunities to work together and potential ways forward.

Held on 27 April 2021, the roundtable included a discussion of the need for a set of guidelines to promote a coordinated approach to spectator racism in sports. Over subsequent months, the Commission led a working group in the drafting of these guidelines, which were released by the Commission and over 20 partner organisations in November 2021.

See key learnings from this project via our evaluation - accessible below

In 2020, the Commission began working on a new iteration of the Racism. It Stops With Me campaign. This was inspired by a number of factors: the continued leadership of First Nations communities in resisting racism and calling for an end to Indigenous deaths in custody, the COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of racist narratives in media and political discourse, rising Islamophobia, antisemitism and concerns about home grown terrorism and extremism. This included the need to fully understand and respond to the ways in which racism is entrenched in colonial Australian history, in our structures and institutions, and as a result, in our everyday lives. 

The campaign relaunch went live on 12 July 2022, with a six-week promotional rollout period that ran to 19 August.