- Inclusion - is getting the right mix of diverse people in an organisation to work together to improve performance and wellbeing. It is achieved when a diversity of people feel they are respected, connected, contributing and progressing at work1.
- Diversity - is the range of human differences, personal and social characteristics that make us unique and shape our view of the world, including but not limited to our backgrounds, life experiences, thoughts and beliefs. Diversity is also about recognising, respecting and valuing differences based on (but not limited to) race, colour, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, relationship/family status and caring responsibilities1.
- Equity - Equity is treating people fairly but differently, allocating resources based on need to remove barriers and disadvantage1.
- Intersectionality - recognises that a person or group of people can be affected by multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage due to their race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, impairment, class, religion, age, social origin and other identity markers that do not exist independently, rather each informs the other and can have overlapping and compounding effects and outcomes2.
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) persons who identify as having a cultural background outside of the predominant Anglo-Australian culture/heritage, for example in cultural/ethnic identity, language, country of birth, heritage/ancestry, national origin, race, and/or colour3.
- Disability - persons who have a limitation, restriction or impairment, which has lasted, or is likely to last, for at least six months and restricts everyday activities4.
- LGBTIQA+ persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, intersex, queer or questioning, asexual/aromantic, and/or all of the gender identities and sexual orientations that letters and words cannot yet fully describe.
- Neurodivergent means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of ‘normal’. Neurodiversity is not a trait that any individual possesses or can possess, an individual doesn’t have neurodiversity they are neurodivergent5.
- Diversity & Inclusion Explained | Diversity Council Australia
- Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031
- Definition developed by the PM&C CALD network for internal PM&C self-identification.
- Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers | Australian Bureau of Statistics
- NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS - NEUROQUEER