About Us
Diversity at GPA
GPA is proud to be a workplace of diverse and inclusive individuals, where we celebrate the value of our differences, and recognise the crucial contribution diverse points of views make to our work.
GPA’s Inclusivity Committee, made up of an array of staff across our business, was founded in 2018 and actively manages the strategies and frameworks in place at GPA, which support and reinforce our efforts to promote inclusivity and diversity across our business.
GPA’s commitment to continual improvement and ongoing reviews of our processes and practices are unwavering, ensuring that our core values of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are at the heart of what we do.
We are passionate about advancing inclusivity in our diversity and have undertaken a number of initiatives across our business to assist this. Our efforts are focused on the below sub-initiatives.
Gender
GPA is committed to undertake a structured process to promote, encourage and facilitate the achievement of gender equality. The process aims to identify and address or eliminate systemic causes of gender inequality in policy, programs and delivery of services in our workplace.
LGBTQIA+
GPA recognises the importance of LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring our people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, and people recognised under the ‘+’ category are empowered with equal opportunities across the organisation. We will also engage with GPA’s LGBTQIA+ community, continuing to support and participate in events that recognise and celebrate the contributions of people who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Multicultural
GPA acknowledges the culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds of our people and is committed to providing a safe and inclusive working environment, ensuring cultural needs are met, recognised and celebrated.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
GPA acknowledges and respects the historical and on-going connection to country that Indigenous communities have through cultural/spiritual sites, language and ceremony. As the custodians of our environment for more than 60,000 years, GPA recognises we have a great deal to learn about sustainability from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
As a first step, GPA is committed to determine how best we can make a meaningful contribution towards advancing reconciliation and indigenous inclusion within our sphere of influence.
Disability
The definition of disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) is broad. It includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological and learning disability. GPA is committed to providing a safe and inclusive workplace that enables people of all abilities to realise their full potential and make valued contributions to our shared vision. We will achieve this by raising our people’s awareness of disability, including ‘invisible disability’.