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- Workplace Racial Equality Agency
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Every workplace should be a safe and respectful environment, free from racism and discrimination.
For many First Nations people and culturally and racially marginalised communities, racism in the workplace remains a persistent and unaddressed issue.
The Greens will establish the Workplace Racial Equality Agency (WREA) to better document and understand the full extent of workplace racism and to ensure that work environments become thriving places of respect and safety for everyone, free from racism.
The Greens' plan:
- Establish a Workplace Racial Equality Agency (WREA), an Australian Government statutory agency responsible for promoting and improving racial equity in Australian workplaces. WREA functions would include:
- Developing, collecting, and publishing information on racial equity indicators (e.g. composition of the workforce, composition of governing bodies, incidences of racism etc.).
- Assisting employers to take action to promote and improve racial equity and representation, including in recruitment and hiring procedures, retention, career progression and pay discrepancy.
- Fostering workplace consultation between employers and employees on issues concerning racism in employment and in the workplace.
- Monitoring compliance with laws and rules.
- Developing industry-specific anti-racism training.
- Establish a Workplace Racial Equality Agency (WREA), an Australian Government statutory agency responsible for promoting and improving racial equity in Australian workplaces. WREA functions would include:
- Anti-Racist and Genuinely Multicultural Australia
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Australia should be a nation where everyone feels valued, respected, and free from discrimination.
The Greens commit to meaningful action to tackle racism in all its forms. We need a national response to build a more inclusive and genuinely multicultural society.
The Greens' plan:
- Strengthen anti-racism efforts with $60 million in funding to the Australian Human Rights Commission to implement the National Anti-Racism Framework, support community education, and launch a national anti-racism campaign.
- Mandate anti-racism training for all Federal MPs and Commonwealth employees to foster understanding and accountability at the highest levels of government, to be funded through the Home Affairs budget.
- Make hate speech illegal, hand in hand with a federal Human Rights Act
- Establish a national racial discrimination and hate crimes database with $5 million in funding to document and address the prevalence of racism across Australia.
- Provide $10m per year to empower and resource Australian authorities to ensure social media companies are held accountable for online hate and racism.