While this presents an opportunity to leverage what is a largely positive disposition towards diversity in this country, three key issues arise from our research: • Stakeholders engaged in the project were unaware of a clear, national definition of racism • There is no national agenda setting out what success in addressing racism looks like, and • Work continues to focus on communities who experience racism and racist behaviours, with only limited work aimed at perpetrators – which was identified as necessary to achieve real progress. Community sector stakeholders called on the Commission to ‘be brave’ in developing the Framework and to use it as a mechanism to bring together groups who share experiences; to be strategic in messaging to go beyond CALD and First Nations peoples so the broader community can recognise the messages, and to be bold enough to state what the issues are facing Australian society. ‘One of the problems with anti-racism is that there is no sense of what does success look like and in what timeframe? So, if you don't want racism to exist in Australia, what does Australia actually look like? How do we communicate with each other? How do we talk about our diversity in five years’ time, 10 years’ time (which is what we are) actually trying to aim for?’33 ‘I think, from a government perspective, and I think you've mentioned Scanlon already, like their research for this year, is, you know, confronting in terms of looking at the trajectory of social cohesion, but we are buoyed by the response to the questions around recognition for multiculturalism remaining high, even in that kind of context. So, for us, we think there's great opportunities in that environment, to look at kind of progressing and setting up that perspective moving forward, as well as the work supporting AHRC. Like there (are) complimentary lines of activity and effort happening now. So, we're hearing messaging around kind of internally within the public service as well as externally. I do think there's great opportunities for us moving forward. I think it is a challenging budgetary environment for everyone, as well. So, it's just it's working through, you know, what are some shorter-term things we can focus on and what's longer term? Because this isn't a quick (process).’34 AGD OPCAT and Justice Reinvestment work as future levers While the AGD OPCAT and Justice Reinvestment teams do not have specific remits to identify and address racism, the nature of the issues they address and their reporting 33 Federal interviewee (Community) 34 Federal interviewee (Departmental) 23