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22 November 2019   BUSINESS, SPORT AND HEALTH LEADERS GATHER FOR NATIONAL SUMMIT ON WORKPLACE INCLUSION OF DIVERSE SEXUALITIES AND GENDERS   Over 900 delegates from across Australia will gather in Sydney for the annual Pride in Practice Conference, the only national summit dedicated to advancing the inclusion of diverse sexualities and genders

23 September 2019 | Ellie Watts, Relationship Manager, Pride in Diversity Bisexual Visibility Day (also known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day) was first officially observed on 23rd September 1999, at the International Lesbian and Gay Association Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty years on, is there still a need to increase Bi Visibility? I was born

Originally published by Equality Australia, 16 July 2019   More than 50 LGBTIQ+ and ally organisations from all over Australia have released a joint statement in support of an affirming Religious Discrimination Act. Anna Brown*, CEO of Equality Australia, has called on the Government to follow through on their federal election promises and

Originally published by Justin Koonin, 15 July 2019 | Sydney Morning Herald    A few months ago, while researching my family history, I came across a letter addressed to my grandfather, Walter Mankiewicz, from his employer, the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft, one of Germany’s large state-owned banks. Adolf Hitler in Nuremberg in 1933, the year that

ACON, 13 June 2019   Cricket Victoria, Tennis Australia, Australian Football League (AFL) club St. Kilda and Melbourne University Sport are among other sporting organisations and individuals who have been named as Australia’s best for LGBTQ inclusion at the Australian Pride in Sport Awards held today at the Cargo Hall in Melbourne. Launched

ACON, 24 May 2019   RMIT University has been named the 2019 Employer of the Year for LGBTI inclusion at the Australian LGBTI Inclusion Awards, hosted by ACON’s Pride in Diversity – the national not-for-profit employer support program for LGBTI workplace inclusion in Australia. More than 730 business leaders, diversity champions and HR professionals representing

A new benchmarking tool launched by leading LGBTI inclusion initiative, Pride Inclusion Programs, now provides health and wellbeing organisations the opportunity to assess, measure and improve their practices to better include LGBTI people in their services. The Health + Wellbeing Equality Index is Australia’s first instrument to annually benchmark LGBTI inclusive service provision

Pride in Diversity will launch its push into regional Australia with a summit in Townsville in Queensland on 30-31 August. The two-day event will bring together managers and professionals from the public and private sector, providing the opportunity for LGBTI employers and employees to meet, explore diversity and inclusion initiatives,

The findings from the country’s largest survey into lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) inclusion within Australian workplaces have been released, detailing a range of attitudes and responses on how inclusion initiatives within the workplace have impacted LGBTI and non-LGBTI employees. The 2018 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Employee Survey

NSW’s leading LGBTI health organisation ACON is launching a new offering for health professionals and organisations seeking to improve their inclusion practices to better serve the needs to LGBTI clients, customers and staff. ACON Pride Training, formerly ACON Training and Consulting, offers training programs and packages using a web storefront for