Creative Equity Toolkit

Australia’s media has been too white for too long. This is how to bring more diversity to newsrooms

Article outlining ways to bring more diversity to Australian newsrooms, including offering increased training to CALD journalists, strengthening talent pipelines through better CALD networks, mentorships and events; improving CALD talent pipelines and consulting with people of colour. It also recommends undertaking and publishing regular diversity audits.

'The ABC and SBS publish regular diversity reports, and arguably, the very existence of these reports shows some progress is being made.'

Black Lives Matter in Australia: A Conversation with Professor Marcia Langton

Professor Marcia Langton reflects on the relevance of the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia, discussing the function of racialisation in a settler-colonial context, the relationship of Aboriginal struggle in Australia (against police violence, carceral systems, and land theft) to the detention of asylum seekers, and the value of transferring esoteric knowledge into public information.

David Olusoga: his Edinburgh television festival speech in full

In his *** lecture, *** presents his thesis that a generation of black and brown talent has been lost to the British media because media management did not support or invest in their careers.

'The recipients of that sort of investment are those whom managers and indie bosses can envisage one day doing their jobs. And in my experience those selected for such elevation tend to be carbon copies of the managers who champion their careers.'