Events

Diversity@ Work Employment and Inclusion Awards, 2011

The ANZ bank was selected as the Organisational Diversity Laureate for its commitment towards developing and delivering a comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy across disability, indigenous, culturally and linguistically diverse Australians and gender diversity.
ANZ also won the award for Employment and Inclusion of Gender Diversity.

The individual laureate award went to Walter Wagner, the Executive General of Food and Beverage at Crown Casino, for assisting indigenous employment.

Therèse Rein, founder of international employment services company Ingeus and recipient of the 2010 Human Rights Medal gave a keynote speech about her father who became a paraplegic in his early 20s and his battle to return to the workforce.
Other award winners were:

CostaExchange, Award for Employment and Inclusion of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Australians.
Deaf Society of NSW, Award for Employment and Inclusion of People with disability. (Last year’s winner, accepted by Andrew Wiltshire, also guest speaker at ADDE Best of the Best Forum held during the day)
Accenture, Award for Employment and Inclusion of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex.
National Australia Bank, Award for Employment and Inclusion of Mature Age.
ABC, Award for Employment and Inclusion of Indigenous Australians.
SP AusNet, Award for Today’s Youth – the Future of Tomorrow.

Our mission is to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities and from diverse backgrounds in Australia. For those of you who are not aware we were officially formed on September 7, 2005 at Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS).

ADDE promotes pro-active employment policies and practices for disadvantaged groups including people with disabilities, mature age workers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as indigenous people. People who fall into more than one of these categories are recognised as being even more disadvantaged. Therefore, we see a greater need for a change of attitude and awareness.