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This Father’s Day, Diversity Council Australia is calling on Australian businesses to make flexible work standard business practice for working dads.

DCA members attending an event yesterday at Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney were given first-hand insights into the harmful effects that prejudice and Islamophobia are having on Australian Muslims and what can be done to create more inclusive workplaces.

Time-based billing has been the dominant model in the Legal and other professions for decades. However, an audience at DCA’s recent Diversity in the Legal Profession Network heard emerging evidence that this may not be the ideal way to do business.

Diversity Council Australia has today released responses to its pre-election survey about policies the major parties would be taking to the election that support diversity and inclusion in Australian workplaces.

June is Pride Month, a chance to celebrate the rights of LGBTI+ people to reject discrimination, prejudice and violence. However, nearly 50 years since this began, these rights are not universally accepted as last Sunday's attack in Orlando has shown.

Diversity Council Australia has launched a new campaign to promote greater understanding of the role that language can play in workplace cultures and the benefits that can flow from more inclusive language.

A report by KPMG for the ASX Corporate Governance Council released this week revealed that while an increasing number of entities are adopting diversity policies, very few have set quantitative targets for gender diversity and this is slowing progress.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has released the results of its landmark study entitled "Willing to Work: National inquiry into employment discrimination against older Australians and Australians with disability".

Following the release of our ground-breaking research in October 2015, "Building Inclusion: An evidence-based model of inclusive leadership", DCA is delighted to announce a new knowledge program to assist leaders build inclusive workplaces.