How inclusive are Australian workplaces for a diversity of employees, and how has this changed over time? What impact does inclusion have on performance and wellbeing? The 2019-2020 Inclusion@Work Index surveyed a nationally representative sample of 3,000 Australian workers to find out.
Mental Health
In any one year, around one million Australian adults have depression, and more than 2 million have anxiety. Untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers $10.9 billion every year through absenteeism, reduced productivity and compensation claims.
DCA Research
Change At Work
For well over thirty years, initiatives designed to improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) have been a priority for organisations – but are the plethora of D&I initiatives actually creating the organisational change they aspire to?
News
DCA launches a new online destination for workplace diversity and inclusion
Media releases
19 Feb 2020
Diversity Council Australia is excited to be launching Australia’s first online platform collaborating with a variety of service providers in the diversity and inclusion (D&I) space.
Backlash: is it good for diversity and inclusion (D&I)?
Media releases
17 Oct 2019
The 2019 Diversity Council Australia and MLC Life Insurance Debate will ask: Is backlash good for diversity and inclusion?
New report shows how to make D&I change initiatives that stick
Media releases
22 Jul 2019
DCA with Deloitte and Google have released a new report which sets out an innovative framework to make diversity and inclusion change that works.
Perspectives
Why we need diversity and inclusion now, more than ever
Blog
25 Jun 2020
Inclusion isn’t just a nice to have. There is a recognition that the principles of inclusion – respect, connection, progressing and contributing – are essential in responding to the immediate challenges, and planning for the future.
At a loss
Podcasts
04 Nov 2019
In episode 3 of the second series of our podcasts we have an important and open conversation about illness and bereavement at work.
How to deal with bereavement
Q&A
07 Jun 2019
An exploration of grief with academic Lauren Breen, Associate Professor in Psychology at Curtin University.
Coming events
31 Aug 2020
At this webinar DCA will look at how COVID-19 has caused a disturbing rise in racism against Asian Australians while the US Black Lives Matter movement has shone a light on the continued injustices and inequalities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in our society.
13 Oct 2020
This Diversity Leadership Program discusses how to support workers experiencing the symptoms of mental health conditions at work.
Date and time are subject to change and will be confirmed closer to the event.
Webcasts from past events
01 Jul 2020
As restrictions start to ease and the economy responds, it’s timely consider what the workplace of the future will look like and importantly, how we can ensure that the road to recovery is inclusive. This webinar features a panel of industry and academic experts and practitioners who examined these issues .
02 Jun 2020
This Diversity Leadership Program event explores the phenomenon of diversity fatigue and how D&I practitioners can counter it.