Indigenous employees across Australia are shouldering unfair loads at work, taking on cultural education and anti-racism initiatives with little institutional support.
Two in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers say they have had extra demands placed upon them that their non-Indigenous colleagues have not, known as ‘cultural load’.
The findings were made in ‘Gari Yala’, a new report by the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research at University of Technology Sydney into First Nations experiences at work.
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