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Policies:


Australian Government - Department of Education, Science and Training

National Goals for Schooling in the 21st Century

National Safe Schools Framework


State of Victoria - Department of Education & Training:

Safe Schools are Effective Schools

Student Wellbeing Policy Frameworks - Diversity

Human Resources - Diversity and Equity

Safe School Policy, La Trobe Secondary College
Not available on Internet as of July 2006


Australian Education Union:

Policy on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People


Department for Victorian Communities:

About the Victorian Multicultural Commission



Policy Support Materials:


Australian Education Union:

Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Intersex & Transgender issues
Australian Education Union's Women's Activist Kit 9.


Bullying. No Way!:

Website of resources and information.


Department of Education, Tasmania:

Tasmania School Anti-Bias Kit
Tasmania became the first State in Australia to introduce anti-homophobia materials for all year levels in state schools in 2000.

Tackling homophobia in Tasmanian schools: 1988 - 2006
An interesting brief history showing the changes in policy in a few short years.


Racism, No way!:

Framework for countering racism
This provides a good structural setting for countering racism and other forms of discrimination, including homophobia

International anti-racism approaches - Linkages to other concepts/paradigms
This provides a good context for countering racism and other forms of discrimination (including homophobia) within "anti bias" education.


La Trobe University:

The Internet and Same-Sex Attracted Young People
A PDF File.

"Shifting the Discource About Same Sex Attraction from the 'Moral' to the 'Safety and Rights' Arenas..."
A PDF File.