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Australian Human Rights Commission Anti-racism eLearning course

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Overview

The Australian Human Rights Commission has a range of eLearning courses available to organisations and businesses.

These accessible and engaging courses provide participants with self-paced learning on human rights-related topics.

The Anti-racism eLearning course aims to improve participants’ understanding of racism and its impacts as well as their ability to address racist behaviours in their daily life and in the workplace.

This self-paced eLearning course takes 2-3 hours to complete.

Key learning outcomes
Increased knowledge and understanding of racism, as both a concept and an experience

  • Increased knowledge and understanding of race and racism in the Australian context, including relevant legislation such as the Racial Discrimination Act
  • Increased awareness of the impacts of racism
  • Tools and strategies for addressing and responding to racism when it’s experienced by colleagues, customers, or clients
  • Skills for effective bystander action

What’s included
• Invitation and registration services (if required)
• Certificates of completion
The course is hosted on the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Learning Management
System (LMS).

Cost

  • $100 (+GST) per person
  • Discounted price for small businesses
  • Discounts for government agencies, not-for-profits, and individuals
  • Discounts for 500+ users

More information

To access the course, please contact: training@humanrights.gov.au or go to the Anti-Racism Page for more information. 

Inclusive Recruitment at Work Guidelines

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Inclusive recruitment at work guidelines 

 

In 2022, DCA partnered with Jobsbank to create these evidenced-based inclusive recruitment guidelines.

DCA’s Inclusive Recruitment project is a response to the uncommon times Australia finds itself in: 

  • 31% of Australian organisations say they can't find workers to fill jobs
  • 3,000,000 Australians are looking for work or want more work

These people are capable, talented, and willing but overlooked by employers. They are most likely to be from marginalised groups, sometimes multiple marginalised groups.  

In this context, Australian organisations need to diversify who and how they hire if they are to meet their workforce needs – tapping into pools of talent typically left off their recruitment radars.  

That’s where Inclusive Recruitment can make a real difference.

"Racism is not acceptable" Factsheet

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"When people who witness racism speak out against it, this makes the person being targeted feel supported, and can make the person being racist reconsider their behaviour. Don’t put yourself at risk. But if it is safe to do so, speak up and stand with the victim. Even a simple gesture can be powerful."

This factsheet has been translated into the following languages (click on the hyperlink to open the factsheet for each language):

Download a folder with all of the translated factsheets below

Racism Is Not Acceptable Factsheet- 64 Languages (ZIP, 11.6MB)

ARC AntiRacism Commitment

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ARC delivers Capsules, Challenges, Conversations and Commitments which encourage individuals to explore ourselves, the societies we live in, the organisations we work and play in, and our capacity to transform them.
 

ARC anti-racism commitment 

AntiRacism collaborators include Professor Yin Paradies, Terori Hareko-Avaivilla, Josh Wanganeen, Sami Shah, Hema Kangeson, Shankar Kasynathan, Pirooz Jafari, Dr Shishir Ray, as well as ARC founder Jane Lewis.

 

Multicultural Australia Cultural Training

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Australia is a culturally and linguistically diverse country, with nearly half of Australians either being born overseas or having one or both parents born overseas.

Being aware of cultural differences is crucial for delivering services to and, working with people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

With expertise in working with CALD community members for over two decades, Multicultural Australia is well placed to provide your organisation with the support and training needed to take your cultural capability to the next level.

Multicultural Australia offers several training options to suit your organisation’s training needs:

  • Working with Cultural Diversity – this strength-based training delivers self-awareness, understanding and ready-to-apply strategies and skills to engage with your diverse employees and clients.
  • Working with Refugees Training – a training workshop that provides a comprehensive insight into how your organisation can effectively work with refugees.
  • Working with young people from a Refugee background – a training workshop that supports your organisation in understanding the refugee journey for young people and how to recognise their skills and experience.
  • Women from refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds experiences of domestic and family violence – this training builds empathy and awareness, as well as providing practical strategies to appropriately respond to need.
  • Tailored training programs – we can provide a tailored training package to support your organisation’s unique requirements.

Multicultural Australia has delivered training to thousands of individuals from corporate, government and educational sectors, in Queensland and across Australia, contributing towards a more inclusive, diverse, and welcoming corporate Australia.

Multicultural Australia Cultural Training 

Supporter Update - July 2022

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Last week, we launched a new iteration of the Racism. It Stops With Me campaign. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from the extensive media reports about the campaign:

The campaign calls on Australians who do not have lived experience of racism to reflect on its causes and do more to challenge it. We hope it will create public discussion - but we need your help to make this happen. 

We’re asking you to support the campaign and help raise awareness about the nature of systemic racism and inequality in Australia. You can do this by downloading our Supporter Kit and sharing the content on social media, or in your workplace and community. 

 

 

 

Download the supporter kit

Information and resources to help you share the campaign and promote anti-racism.

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Craig Foster, Racism It's Stops With Me ambassador

The campaign invites all Australians to commit to learning about racism and taking action against it. It urges supporters to reflect on the inequality racism causes, and to work within your sphere of influence to create meaningful change.  

The campaign includes a Community Service Announcement that will be broadcast on national television, which you can view here. We’re also launching a new Racism. It Stops With Me website, with information and resources to help you get involved. The website hosts a new Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool, a free, online, confidential self-assessment tool to help organisations promote inclusion and diversity, and engage in anti-racism. 

You can also support the campaign by signing your organisation up as a supporter and joining a community of hundreds of organisations committed to making change. We also have a range of merchandise available. 

No matter how challenging the conversation, we need to talk about racism and the causes of inequality. 

By taking a stand against racism, we can build a fair and equal society – for all. 



We thank you for supporting the campaign and helping spread the message, 

Chin Tan

Race Discrimination Commissioner

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New Campaign Urges Australians to Reflect and Act on Racism

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The campaign acknowledges that First Nations peoples and others with lived experience of racism have been leading anti-racism in Australia for centuries, and calls on more Australians to reflect on their responsibility and take action.

The multiplatform ad campaign will build awareness of how racism operates at both a structural and interpersonal level and give people tools to recognise and address it.

It features well known ambassadors who appear in a community service announcement where a group of Australians talk about their own experiences of racism and inequality.

Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan said the campaign, which modernises the Racism. It Stops With Me initiative that launched in 2012, responds to recent events and addresses major challenges to realising racial equity in Australia.

“Racism continues to undermine justice and fairness in Australia. We see it in the lack of recognition of First Nations communities, in ongoing discrimination and power imbalances that create inequitable outcomes. We see it in continued antisemitism and Islamophobia, in the surge of anti-Asian hate during the pandemic, and in the rise of far-right extremism,” Commissioner Tan said. 

“The #BlackLivesMatter movement has demonstrated leadership from First Nations communities and others with lived experience of racism. Now is the time for all Australians to act in support.”

First Nations woman in chair looking to camera, with text "Can i be sure my name won't stop me from getting a job interview?"
Campaign Ambassador Craig Foster reflected in mirror

The campaign seeks to achieve three objectives:

  1. To engage more Australians in conversations about racism and anti-racism.
  2. To expand the campaign’s focus to include institutional and systemic racism, in addition to interpersonal forms of racism.
  3. To provide more Australians with tools and resources to engage in active anti-racism.

The new Racism. It Stops With Me website features educational resources to help businesses and individuals advance racial equity. This includes a resource hub, directing supporters to other initiatives working to address racism. It also includes a new Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool for organisations to evaluate and improve their inclusion, diversity and anti-racism practices.

Author and broadcaster Tasneem Chopra OAM said she hoped the campaign would lead to greater understanding about racism and prompt people with privilege to “use their platforms responsibly to make society more inclusive and practice zero tolerance to racism”.

“The burden of dismantling racism should not lie with people who experience it, but with those who have the resources to educate and help prevent further harm,” Ms Chopra said.

Former Socceroos captain Craig Foster AM said, “Racism is more than just harmful words or individual actions. It is also about the barriers that prevent some groups from accessing equal opportunities in life – including biases in our society, its laws, institutions, and ways of thinking. Racism affects us all and there is a role for everyone to play in addressing it.”

Commissioner Tan said, “Many of us are often unaware of racial and cultural biases, whether in ourselves or in society – but these biases have significant impacts on racial equity. We see this in areas such as employment, justice, education and health, among others.”

The campaign supports the Australian Human Rights Commission’s development of a National Anti-Racism Framework – a process that will unite organisations from all areas of Australian public life, together with governments, in developing strategies to tackle racism and inequality.

Who gets to tell Australian stories?

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‘Who Gets To Tell Australian Stories?’ report (opens in new window, PDF, 1475kb)

The ‘Who Gets To Tell Australian Stories?’ report is the first comprehensive picture of who tells, frames and produces stories in Australian television news and current affairs. It details the experience and the extent of inclusion and representation of culturally diverse news and current affairs presenters, commentators and reporters. It is also the first forensic examination of how our media treats cultural diversity at the workplace level.

Hunter Johnson

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Meet Hunter

Hunter Johnson is Founder and CEO of The Man Cave, an emotional intelligence charity that has impacted the lives of 30,000 young men across Australia.

Hunter is also the CEO of STUFF™, a men's personal care brand that champions healthy masculinity. He works as an Advisor to The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust (QCT), a charity supporting young people throughout the Commonwealth alongside Prince Harry, the President of QCT.

Hunter's work has led him to speak around the world including presenting at the United Nations, Government House, Human Rights Commission, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Town Hall, Graduation Ceremonies and various Universities. Hunter has been recognised as an Honouree for the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, Finalist for the Young Australian of the Year Awards (VIC), named a Queen's Young Leader by Her Majesty The Queen.

 

What does 'Racism. It Stops With Me' mean to Hunter?

From a young age, Hunter’s family encouraged him to use his time, skills and resources to work for a better world. For Hunter, Racism. It Stops With Me is about using his privilege and platform to advocate for a racial justice and equity. He hopes that the campaign can provide education about the ongoing individual, societal and systemic discrimination experienced by many in Australia, and agitate people into action. He acknowledges that education is the first step, but must be followed by action.

Hunter Johnson is the Founder & CEO of two purpose-driven organisations.
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