Responding to racism
How to become an accredited Welcoming City
Welcoming Cities Accreditation Overview (opens in new window, PDF, 179KB)
A guide for local councils to become members of the Welcoming Cities Network. Councils are invited to complete the assessment and undertake accreditation to benchmark progress and identify gaps in their welcoming and inclusion practices.
Law Society of NSW cultural diversity guidance
Cultural diversity guidance resource (PDF, 372kb).
The Law Society of NSW recognises that creating an environment where every person, regardless of their background, has opportunities and support to reach their professional potential can result in better outcomes for the community at large, and better business outcomes for the profession.
The Law Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, cultural diversity guidance encourages workplaces to actively consider their recommendations towards improving cultural diversity in the legal profession.
People at Work: Australia's only validated psychosocial risk assessment survey
Link to People at Work webpage.
This tool supports organisations to identify, assess and control risks to psychological health at work.
It is a part of a five-step process that you can use to identify, assess and control risks to psychological health at work.
How to tell someone you love they're being racist
Knowing how to respond to racist remarks from friends and relatives can be a minefield. On the one hand, you want to call them out for their misinformed bigotry but doing so can lead to an argument or awkwardness, without actually convincing them to change their view.
Amnesty International provides 7 steps to communicate clearly and effectively to help reduce the casual racism that is still prevalent in a lot of Australian communities.
Creating cultures and practices for racial equity
Find the Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity Toolkit online here
Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity contains a variety of tools that emerged from Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab. Tools and resources are designed to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in arts organizations.
Creative equity toolkit
https://creativeequitytoolkit.org/
The Creative Equity Toolkit provides an action-oriented approach to increasing cultural diversity in the arts. It is a project run by Diversity Arts Australia and the British Council.
The site features dozens of implementable actions, from simple to complex, along with hundreds of links to tools and resources developed around the world to help put these actions into practice.
Internationally there are remarkable differences in how arts organisations approach the question of diversity. This site brings together ideas, research and best practice from around the world into one place. The Creative Equity Toolkit has extracted the solutions and recommendations from research and case studies, and provided short introductions to key concepts to help inform debate.
Vicarious liability
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.