Media release — 3 July 2026

Creative Workplaces has delivered a new framework to support creative businesses and organisations to build and sustain fair, safe and respectful work across Australia's creative industries.

Built around the core values of fairness, safety and respect, the Creative Workplaces Foundations helps creative businesses and organisations understand their legal obligations to workers and take practical steps to strengthen workplace practices. 

Supporting the Foundations is a suite of workplace policy templates, delivering on a commitment in the Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive. The new templates include a Code of Conduct and several workplace policies, including unacceptable workplace behaviours, work health and safety, grievance handling, and flexible work and leave.

Creative Workplaces Council Chair, Kate Jenkins AO, said the new resources would help organisations build capability and create healthier workplace cultures.

"Creative work depends on people, and sustainable creative work depends on healthy workplace relationships. 

Creative Workplaces is here to make it easier for the creative sector to meet Australian workplace standards through practical resources that support better workplace practice. By building capability, we are helping organisations create environments where people feel welcomed, valued and supported."

In the coming months, Creative Workplaces will also release findings from its first national survey, providing a comprehensive snapshot of working life across Australia’s arts and cultural sector. The findings will inform future policy development, sector support and workplace improvement initiatives. 

Together, the Creative Workplaces Foundations, the supporting policy templates and forthcoming survey findings support a coordinated national approach to strengthening fair, safe and respectful workplaces across Australia's creative industries. 

More information is available at creativeworkplaces.gov.au.