Creative Equity Toolkit

How Australia’s top companies do diversity right

A light article on how 6 of the best companies in Australia are actively working towards doing diversity right — and how they put their words into action, from the development of effective partnerships, diverse hiring through to measurement and tackling bias.

Metanoia works beyond the paradigm

For four years, Metanoia Theatre turned the Mechanics Institute in Brunswick, Melbourne into an artist-led contemporary arts space. Metanoia believes in cross-cultural/culturally diverse casting because it show an Australia of the future.

‘On the streets, we can see, in almost all places of Australia now, it’s completely culturally diverse [but] in all of the ways we reflect ourselves we don’t see that in an authentic way at all. It supports our ability to see ourselves as we truly are.'

Partner Power

This 'Technique for Building More Authentic Community Partnerships Right from the Start' offers a model of consultation and collaboration used by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in the US to build an exhibition in collaboration with the community. Includes a video on conducting a meeting and worksheet with sample questions, using active listening and open-ended questions.

“It felt more equal...rather than appearing as though we were just trying to tick a box on community engagement.”