Disability: we use the social model of disability. The social model is a way of viewing the world and has been developed by people with disability. This model acknowledges that people are disabled by barriers in society such as buildings not having a ramp or accessible toilets or people's attitudes like assuming people with disability can't do certain things. This social model helps us recognise barriers that make life harder for people with disability. The removal of these barriers achieves equality and offers people with disability more independence choice and agency over their lives.

Diversity: is the practice or culture of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders sexual orientations etc.

Employee: means a person employed by the defined entity on a full - time part - time casual or fixed term basis (including an apprentice or trainee) but does not include:

1. a contractor or subcontractor; or
2. an outworker; or
3. a person on a vocational placement; or
4. a student gaining work experience; or
5. a volunteer

Inclusion: is the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized.

Intersectionality: coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 intersectionality is “a prism for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other”. An intersectional approach shows the way that people's social identities can overlap creating compounding experiences of discrimination and disadvantage.

Gender: is being used inclusively to recognise that gender is more than someone's sex according to their birth or biology but it is about how someone sees themselves and how they feel on the inside. This could be as a girl boy or non - binary and self - described gender.

Gender equality: means equality of rights opportunities responsibilities and outcomes between persons of different genders

Gender equity: recognises that not all people have equal opportunities or access to resources whether it be because of their gender race religion class sexual orientation Aboriginality or disability and so on.

Gender mainstreaming: has been embraced internationally as an objective towards realising gender equality. It involves the integration of a gender perspective into the preparation design implementation monitoring and evaluation of policies regulatory measures and spending programmes with a view to promoting equality between women and men and combating discrimination.

Social equity: is the incorporation of objectivity fairness and justice for all people in social policy. Social equity considers systemic inequalities to ensure everyone men women gender non - binary people of diverse backgrounds in a community has access to the same opportunities and outcomes.