Dear EQI

On this episode, special guest, Ella Noah Bancroft. Ella is a proud member of the Bundjalung nation of Northern NSW, with bloodlines also to England and Scotland. She’s an artist, author, mentor, consultant and founder of ‘The Returning’, an Indigenous charity designed to bring all peoples of all ages, races and places back to country. On this episode, Ella joins us to talk all about decolonising...

Vyshnavee Wijekumar is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion adviser at the Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI). She also sits on the board of the Melbourne Women in Film festival and is a writer and culture critic. She has Sri Lankan Tamil heritage and brings a lived experience lens to all of the work she does in DEI and community engagement. In this podcast, Vysh joins us to discuss DEI in t...

In today’s episode, we’re talking all about a game-changing piece of legislation, Victoria’s Gender Equality Act (The Act). Dr Niki Vincent, the Commissioner for Gender Equality in the Public Sector in Victoria joins us as our very special guest to explain exactly what you need to know about the Act and how to apply a gendered lens to all that you do. Though the Act specifically relates to entitie...

On this episode of Dear EQI, Domini Marshall is joined by EQI's Senior Research Associate Dr Sarah Homan and very special guest, Jaya Luintel, a prominent Nepali journalist and women's rights advocate. Sarah and Jaya, who are best friends, explore the powerful concept of feminist friendship through personal stories from their long-running relationship. They discuss how this unique bond l...

Introducing 'Dear EQI', a very special mini-series of content from The Equality Institute. On each episode, we answer your questions on diversity, equity and inclusion, explore the systemic issues at play, and serve up practical, actionable advice to solve it. It’s like an advice show, for your lunch hour. On this first episode, EQI's Founder and Co-CEO Dr Emma Fulu and Director of...

On this episode, Dom and Emma are joined by EQI’s Workplace Equality Lead, Shannon Harmer, for a discussion on intersectionality – what it is, why it’s so important and how to actually put it into practice, to drive truly lasting and effective inclusion at work. They also discuss whether it’s truly possible to lead on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives without lived experience, and how to...

In Australia, new amendments to the Respect@Work Act, passed into law last year, have become enforcable. On this episode of Dear EQI, we’re joined by gender equality and human rights expert Somali Cerise, and EQI's Research and Evaluation Lead Loksee Leung, to explore the upcoming changes, and what they mean for Australian workplaces. We talk about what it truly takes prevent sexual harassmen...

On this episode of Dear EQI, Dom and Emma are joined by special guest host Kayla Glynn Braun, a proud Wirudjeri woman based on Arrente Country in Central Australia, and a Program Coordinator here at EQI, working with our partners in the Northern Territory, for a special conversation in the lead up to the upcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament. In this episode, we discuss the Voice vote, wh...