Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders at Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)

As a new department, we are developing our Inclusion Strategy to embrace the diversity of our workforce and create an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone. 

We are also developing an Employee Experience (EX) program to support our culture and our mission to be a model employer. Our EX program will map the employee life cycle, listen to our people and build an understanding of individual staff experiences at important touchpoints over the course of their career. The program will be customised to focus on priority areas such as our commitment to First Nations Peoples and being an employer of choice for diversity and inclusion.

We have a dedicated Indigenous Staff Network which brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait staff to:

• share experiences and ideas,
• build connections,
• provide advice to our senior leadership and other staff; and,
• implement practical initiatives to ensure our work environment remains culturally inclusive and safe at all times.

We work in close partnership with First Nations communities on matters relating to climate change, heritage, the environment, national parks, water security and wildlife. This offers unique opportunities to respectfully combine the strengths of traditional and other knowledge and practice, and to find avenues for achieving broader economic, health, social and cultural benefits for First Nations Australians.

Our department recognises the First Peoples of this nation and their ongoing connection to culture and Country. We acknowledge First Nations Peoples as the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Lore Keepers of the world’s oldest living culture and pay respects to their Elders past and present.