Push for public service ethnic diversity strategy

Greens Deputy leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who is calling on the government and APS commission to improve cultural and linguistic diveristy in the public service. Picture by James Croucher

The Australian Public Service could soon have a strategy for improving cultural and linguistic diversity after a renewed push from the Greens' deputy leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who called the under-representation of ethnic diversity in the public service "abysmal".

Senator Faruqi said having more culturally and linguistically diverse people in the APS would improve the public service's ability to "provide better services to those communities".