Copyright and disclaimer

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency encourages the dissemination and exchange of information provided on this website.

The Commonwealth owns the copyright in all material produced by this department.

All material presented on this website is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, with the exception of:

  • the Commonwealth Coat of Arms,
  • the WGEA logo, and
  • content supplied by third parties.

The details of the relevant licence conditions are available on the Creative Commons website.

Creative Commons License

Use of all or part of any material on this website must include the following attribution:
© Commonwealth of Australia

The terms under which the Commonwealth Coat of Arms can be used are set out on the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s website.

If you want to use material on this website in a way that is beyond the scope of the terms of use that apply to it, please ask us for permission. You may infringe our copyright if you use anything on this website in a way that’s not permitted or otherwise allowed under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

Disclaimer

This website is presented by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency for the purpose of disseminating information for the benefit of the public.

The Agency monitors the quality of the information available on this website and updates the information regularly.

However, the Agency does not guarantee, and accepts no legal liability whatsoever arising from or connected to, the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of any material contained on this website or on any linked site.

The Agency recommends that users exercise their own skill and care with respect to their use of this website and that users carefully evaluate the accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance of the material on the website for their purposes.

Material on this site is made available on the understanding that the Agency is not providing professional advice. Users should obtain any appropriate professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances.

The material on this website may include the views or recommendations of third parties, which do not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency, or indicate its commitment to a particular course of action.

Links to external websites

This website contains links to other websites that are external to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. The Agency takes reasonable care in linking websites but has no direct control over the content of the linked sites, or the changes that may occur to the content on those sites. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external websites.

Links to external websites do not constitute an endorsement or a recommendation of any material on those sites or of any third party products or services offered by, from or through those sites. Users of links provided by this website are responsible for being aware of which organisation is hosting the website they visit.

Security of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website

The Agency applies a range of security controls to protect its website from unauthorised access. However, users should be aware that the World Wide Web is an insecure public network that gives rise to a potential risk that a user's transactions are being viewed, intercepted or modified by third parties or that files which the user downloads may contain computer viruses, disabling codes, worms or other devices or defects.

The Agency accepts no liability for any interference with or damage to a user's computer system, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this website or its use. Users are encouraged to take appropriate and adequate precautions to ensure that whatever is selected from this site is free of viruses or other contamination that may interfere with or damage the user's computer system, software or data.