functions are enabled
through powers to
inquire into compliance,
make findings of
non-compliance, issue
compliance notices that can
be enforced by the courts
and enter into enforceable
undertakings with employers and
persons conducting a business
or undertaking.
During this planning period, our Positive
Duty Team will focus on workplaces with known
significant drivers and risk factors, including
intersectional and marginalised workers, where
engagement will create opportunity for broad
influence and effect meaningful cultural change.
We will conduct systems-based engagement
with workplaces using both voluntary
engagement and a suite of regulatory tools.
The work that we do as a regulator will be
underpinned by the principles of regulator best
practices including:
•
continuous improvement and building trust
•
a risk-based and data-driven approach
•
collaboration and engagement
and is consistent with our wider approaches at
the Commission.
We will continue to commit to best practice
community engagement and truth telling in all
of our work. This includes engagement with
Jewish and Palestinian communities, led by the
Race Discrimination Commissioner, to consider
the domestic impacts of the ongoing war in
Gaza and to identify and address the reported
rise in anti-semitism, anti-Palestinian racism and
Islamophobia over the past year.
In 2024-25, the Commission will also conduct a
groundbreaking prevalence study into racism
in universities, with a particular focus on antisemitism, Islamophobia and the experiences of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Sex Discrimination Commissioner will
continue the work championing existing
protections among LGBTIQA+ communities,
building awareness of threats to LGBTIQA+
rights and advocating for inclusive and just
legislation and practices. The Respect@Work
‘speaking from experience’ project will identify
the historic experiences of sexual harassment of
marginalised communities.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
Justice Commissioner will initiate a national
engagement project to hear from First Nations
people about how to move forward after the
Voice Referendum and how to progress and
utilise mechanisms to realise rights.
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