Reconciliation Barometer, provide examples of evidence-based research work
undertaken in the community sector.
Key Finding 11: Failure of political bipartisanship
Unlike other policy areas, continuity in work on racism is heavily reliant on, and
susceptible to, the attitudes of the government of the day. More recent conservative
governments have stepped away from traditional bipartisan approaches in this space
and, unlike their predecessors, can no longer be seen as drivers of anti-racism work.
This has led to a gap in corporate knowledge in the public sector, and a current sense of
‘reinventing of the wheel’.
Key Finding 12: Limitations due to lack of engagement with
this research
There are limitations to the findings of this research due to a small sample of publicly
available information made available by governments, and a lack of interest or
engagement with the research project.
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