LGBTQ+ at Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C)

PM&C has a diverse and inclusive culture that supports people to reach their potential, feel valued and are able to be themselves at work.

Pride Network

PM&C has an active Pride Employee Network, supported by an LGBTIQ+ Executive Champion, which strives for a more inclusive and diverse workforce, internally and across the public service where staff feel safe and can be themselves at work, specifically by promoting equality in the workplace, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status.

The Pride Network works with the Department on Policy projects and contributes each year to develop PM&C’s submission to the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI). PM&C's 2019 achievement (shared with the National Indigenous Australians Agency) of Gold Employer status places us in the higher ranks of inclusive employers in Australia and positions PM&C as a workplace of inclusion and respect in the public eye.

PM&C has also met the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. The purpose of these guidelines is to introduce new protections and practices from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status. Our HR information systems have been updated to capture gender ‘X’ upon commencement.

The Pride Network promotes days of significance for LGBTIQ+ issues including:

The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia
Wear it Purple Day
Intersex Awareness Day
Canberra’s LGBTQI+ Fair Day
World AIDS Day

I acknowledge that Murdoch University is situated on the lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people.

I pay respect to the enduring and dynamic culture and the leadership of Noongar elders both past and present.

The boodjar (country) on which Murdoch University is located has for thousands of years been a place of learning. We at Murdoch University are proud to continue this long tradition.