Creative Equity Toolkit

Capturing diversity metrics in the workplace

This article raises awareness of legal obligations in governance with regard to equity, diversity and inclusion. It offers a useful checklist on how to capture data and ensure that your legal, HR and policy processes are addressing equity, diversity and inclusion effectively.

CDN Planning Framework

Planning tool that links cultural objectives with measurable outcomes, using six principles underpinned by the theory of change. It's particularly useful in clarifying objectives and framing them as desired changes that can be measured in concrete ways. This tool has been developed by the Cultural Development Network which supports Australian governments to plan and evaluate for rich cultural outcomes.

Centring Marginalised Voices at Work

Diversity Council Australia (DCA) has created a new guide on centring marginalised voices at work. This is a practical guide that clarifies what it means to centre voice and why this is important. It provides a step-by-step guide on how organisations can do this.

Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design

National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) have published a Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design. This code is endorsed by the Australian Federal Government's National Cultural Policy 'Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place’.

Commissioning for Diversity and Inclusion Guidelines — Screen Content

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines – Screen Content” will require production companies to provide greater access and opportunity to under-represented people and perspectives – on and off screen – including gender diversity, Indigenous Australians, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, people living with a disability and the LGBTQI+ community.

Commissioning New Adventures: Building an Inclusive Process

Blog describing the commissioning process designed to increase diversity of scriptwriters in new series of the popular ‘Zombies Run!’ exercise game, first using ‘blind’ anonymous read-throughs to shortlist, then assessing writer bios to ‘promote’ submissions from under-represented groups.

'In every case where we felt our shortlist was unbalanced, we promoted extra submissions rather eliminating others. We worked by addition rather than subtraction.'