Diversity in the Australian Workplace

Running Head: DIVERSITY IN THE AUSTRALIAN WORKPLACE
DIVERSITY IN THE AUSTRALIAN WORKPLACE
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PART ONE:
1. Australia is a country where many cultural groups live side by side and work together.
Two cultural groups of them are Chinese and Vietnamese, and two different religious
groups are Islam and Catholic Christian.
Two key differences between Chinese and Vietnamese people –
Chinese people always focus on the option that is best for their family. Whereas,
Vietnamese people always focus the option that is best for the entire community.
Chinese people tend to respect women less than men. Whereas, Vietnamese people
respect women as well as men.
Two key differences between Islamic and Catholic Christian people –
Islamic people are very much focused on respect of their religious views. Whereas,
the Catholic Christian people are less related with their religious views.
Islamic people do not believe empowerment of women. Whereas, the Catholic
Christian believe in gender equality.
2. The information regarding the question no. 1 is researched on the web and found out
by studying these websites given below –
https://stream.org/key-difference-between-christianity-and-islam/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1440783315621167
3. There are several laws regarding discrimination in terms of federal, state and territory
laws in the country to protect the Australian citizens getting harassed. The Australian
Human Rights Commission has given restrictions against discriminations under some
acts given below –
The Age Discrimination Act 2004,

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The Racial Discrimination Act 1975,
The Sex Discrimination Act 1984
The Age Discrimination Act 2004 –
This act of law protects every Australian from facing discrimination in terms of age and
discrimination based on employment, education and access to the premises, services, disposal
of land and facilities, accommodation and services, also in the administration of
Commonwealth laws and its programs, and also in the requests for information.
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 –
This act of law protects every Australian from discrimination in terms of race, national or
ethnic origin, their immigrant status, their employment, the provision in terms of goods and
services, their right to form trade unions, buying land and housing and also in availing other
accommodations.
The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 –
This act of law protects every Australian from discrimination in terms of their sex, marital or
relationship privacy, their pregnancy or potential pregnancy, their breastfeeding and family
upbringing and their responsibilities, their sexual orientation, and the intersex status of the
nationals. Under this Act, Sexual harassment also prohibited as well.
4. Having diversity in workplace in terms of different age and different abilities can
benefit an organization as experiencing crossover of skills by having the assistance of
each other in the workplace. Having a variety of skills due to different age groups can
benefit the employees to learn more from each other benefits the company as well. It
also helps to innovate new ways as different cultural people of different age groups