Across many NSW Government agencies and organisations, Disability Employee Networks (DENs) and other resource groups are active and open to people working in the public sector who have a disability or who want to be a champion for disability awareness and support.

The NSW Public Service Commission works alongside DENs and their members to ensure that the public sector is accessible and inclusive for people with disability. DENs are a place where employees can feel safe to disclose their disability, share knowledge, raise awareness and champion inclusive change.

The different DENs across NSW Government also come together fortnightly for the DENconnect forum. DENconnect is open to anyone in the public sector and aims to provide a safe, open space to share updates on disability focused activities, networks and initiative’s being developed at an agency level. By connecting employees with disability to each other, a collective shift can be made towards a greater culture of inclusion across the public sector.   

Disability Employment Network contacts in the public sector:

Cluster/Agency Contact Contact Email
Communities and Justice

Rita Cottrell

DENInquiries@facs.nsw.gov.au

or 

rita.cottrell@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Customer Service Edwin Garland abilityDCS@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Customer Service Kath Tidd Co-Chair kathryn.tidd@revenue.nsw.gov.au
Education Gabrielle Koens GABRIELLE.KOENS@det.nsw.edu.au
Education Mark Kunach mark.kunach@det.nsw.edu.au
Education Kanisha Diwakar kanisha.diwakar2@det.nsw.edu.au
Education - TAFE

Jodie Hoger

Gabi De Vries

enquiries.tafeability@tafensw.edu.au
Enterprise, Investment and Trade TBA  
Health

Franki Pollick (HealthShare NSW)

Gareth Boylan (all other Health DEN enquiries)

franki.pollick@health.nsw.gov.au

gareth.boylan@health.nsw.gov.au

Planning and Environment Ann-Marie Mahony ann-marie.mahony@planning.nsw.gov.au
Planning and Environment Amanda Neirinckx amanda.neirinckx@dpie.nsw.gov.au
Police Inclusion & Diversity team hrdiversity@police.nsw.gov.au
Premier and Cabinet

Elizabeth Zammit

dain@dpc.nsw.gov.au
Regional NSW Paul Nunnari paul.nunnari@regional.nsw.gov.au
Regional NSW Alex McLerie alex.mclerie@regional.nsw.gov.au
State Library Olwen Pryke olwen.pryke@sl.nsw.gov.au
Transport and Infrastructure Mandi Barnao amanda.barnao@transport.nsw.gov.au

If you do not see your agency or cluster represented in the list above, please contact your HR team to see what is available. You can also consider setting up your own DEN by joining the DENconnect online forums to learn how.