In 2024, a review of DPC commitments under the SDRF was undertaken and identified several commitments should apply or could be modified to become appropriate for all groups to work towards.
Through this approach, commitments such as considering Treaty and truth processes, improving cultural safety capability and working towards a two per cent Aboriginal employment target are the responsibility of every group. The table below shows where previous commitments have been superseded.
| Group | Superseded Commitment | New Commitment (DPC-wide) |
|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | Ensure that staff assisting in Treaty and truth processes, and other matters involving First Peoples, such as Land Justice, are trained appropriately and supporting these processes. | All staff ensure Treaty and truth processes, and other matters involving First Peoples, are accounted for in their work. |
| Social Policy | Support actions and implementation of DPC Aboriginal Workforce Strategy and create more career opportunities, informed by the strategy once finalised. | All Groups work toward a two per cent Aboriginal employment target. All Groups investigate opportunities to support First Peoples’ employment programs such as cadetships and Barring Djinang internship program. |
| Social Policy | All staff engage in at least one training session per calendar year to embed self-determination and cultural safety into core business and workplace culture of DPC by ensuring all staff develop capability and apply to day-to-day work and interactions, such as in reviewing budget bids, funding agreements and in providing policy advice to government | All staff improve cultural safety capability and understanding of self-determination. |
| Public Administration | OGC will incorporate self-determination considerations, where appropriate and relevant, when providing legal advice to lead policy and law reform branches in DPC. For example, OGC to be conscious of self-determination principles when reviewing documents such as funding agreements involving First Peoples | All staff improve cultural safety capability and understanding of self-determination. |
| First Peoples – State Relations | Increase all staff awareness of how self-determination relates to their work. Continue to ensure self-determination informs everyday policy thinking and interactions with other departments, including budget considerations | All staff improve cultural safety capability and understanding of self-determination. |
| Economic Policy & State Productivity | Ensure all economic policy advice includes self-determination considerations by delivering training and/or resources to policy teams | All staff improve cultural safety capability and understanding of self-determination. |
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