Creative Equity Toolkit

Actors and filmmakers say Australia needs to catch up on diversity

Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven Oscars in 2023, including best picture and best actress for Michelle Yeoh. A report found that actors of Asian descent made up 9 per cent of casted roles in Australia, despite making up roughly 17.4 per cent of the broader population and actors and filmmakers from diverse backgrounds are calling for a shake-up.

From margins to mainstream: API representation in Hollywood

Research by McKinsey and Company acknowledges that API representation in film and television has increased in the past two decades but notes that more than two-thirds of API consumers are dissatisfied with the level of authenticity of their on-screen representation.

Gender and racial imbalance in orchestra repertoire growing worldwide

In this article for Limelight, Maddy Briggs highlights how orchestras appear to be moving further away from equal representation.

"Regrettably, our latest report reveals a missed opportunity. The overwhelming predominance of historical white male composers in programming is not just a reflection of past biases but a continued endorsement of them"

How Has On-Screen Representation in Children’s Television Changed from 2018 to 2023?

This report, by the Geena Davis Institute and The Nielsen Foundation, investigated gender, race, LGBTQIA+ identity, disability, age, and body-size inclusion and representation in programming popular with children ages two to 11 in the U.S.

"I Don’t Want to Be an ‘Accessory to a White Woman’s Journey"

Actor Kerry Washington explains in her memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” that she actively rejected playing the “white girl’s best friend” after starring in “Against the Ropes,” the 2004 boxing drama headlined by Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. Washington’s career continued with supporting roles, but ones she felt were far more fleshed out than just playing support to her white female co-star.