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1,588 employees across 10 Consult Australia Member firms contributed through confidential survey responses and verbatim accounts about exclusionary behaviour within their workplace. The insights from the survey provide a deeper understanding of the nature, prevalence, and impact of exclusionary behaviours within their organisations.

As businesses across Australia are impacted by labour and skills shortages, the Champions of Change Coalition says delivering effective and secure flexible work arrangements for frontline, shift and site-based workers has immediate benefits and should be a long-term strategy for workforce sustainability.

The Champions of Change Consult Australia 2021 Progress Report provides an update on the Group’s actions taken and outcomes achieved over the past 12 months, against the Group’s gender equality priorities. The report also highlights and celebrates stories of fathers accessing ‘shared care’ parental leave, offering equal access of up to 16 weeks parental leave for either parent.

The Champions of Change Fire and Emergency 2021 Progress Report provides an update on the Group’s actions taken and outcomes achieved over the past 12 months, against the Group’s gender equality priorities. The report also presents the gender representation in their workforce, including frontline service delivery roles.

The Champions of Change Coalition 2021 Impact Report details Coalition Members’ action and impact on gender equality, advancing more and diverse women into leadership and building respectful and inclusive working environments for all employees.

Champions of Change Coalition, in partnership with Challenge DV, No to Violence, Our Watch, The Full Stop Foundation, UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network and WESNET, today release a framework with practical actions and resources for organisations, to advance their approach to the prevention and response to domestic and family violence in the workplace.

Corporate giving could become a powerful lever for accelerating gender equality according to the recommendations in a new resource from Champions of Change Coalition and Australians Investing In Women.

Champions of Change Sport Group release the Pathway to Gender Equality in Sport: Progress Report 2019-2020. This is the second annual progress report, it tracks improvement and provides transparency on Group-wide and organisation performance on gender equality across 26 measures under the five categories of: leadership, participation, pathways, investment and practical actions.

Sexual harassment is a societal issue and no organisation or workplace is immune. What we have been doing in the past has not been working. As leaders committed to accelerating gender equality in our organisations we know that we can use organisational systems to eradicate sexual harassment and it requires significant shifts.