Key findings The Commission heard from participants on a range of issues concerning data, education, public awareness, and cultural safety. Participants also identified legal protections, justice, and media regulations and standards as other areas of concern. Data Participants stressed the need for comprehensive, national data on the prevalence, nature, and impacts of racism. Many criticised Australia’s current approach to data collection for anti-racism purposes. Data was highlighted as an important means of raising awareness about the extent of racism and racial inequity and as an important means of securing the appropriate resources and funding to address racism. Establishing mechanisms to collect data on cultural diversity broadly and across institutions and services was a main priority, as well as ensuring ethical approaches and processes around data collection that would protect communities from unethical data collection, management, and reporting that often results in deficit characterisations of First Nations peoples and people from migrant, refugee, and faith-based backgrounds. Education and public awareness Education and public awareness raising were priorities for participants. Improving understanding about race and racism in Australia was identified as an opportunity to connect people through common understandings and build momentum for change, including through anti-racism initiatives and actions. Participants advocated for anti-racism initiatives within educational institutions to improve racial literacy. This includes truth-telling about Australia’s colonial and migration history, and anti-racism training and education for students and teachers. Cultural safety Cultural safety was identified by many participants as a best-practice approach to addressing race-based barriers and harms experienced in relation to job-seeking, and especially within the workplace. Cultural safety was also offered as a solution to what was described as the ineffectiveness and limits of workplace diversity and inclusion initiatives. Cultural awareness and cultural competence training for staff was recommended as being essential to building a respectful and inclusive workplace. Participants described how culturally safe workplaces provide a foundation for culturally safe service provision and identified community-controlled service provision, trauma-informed and healing approaches to service delivery, anti-racist competencies that underpin service delivery, and accountability mechanisms to protect these principles as strategies to build upon this foundation. National Anti-Racism Framework Scoping Report 2022 | 11