Responding to racism
Find the latest news on the campaign, and other anti-racism initiatives in Australia
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ABC chiefs must back Laura Tingle
31 May 2024 -
Opinion Editorial by Giridharan Sivaraman. Published by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
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16 March 2021
National Anti-Racism Framework plan launched
Commissioner Tan released a concept paper detailing key components that need to be included in the Framework and will soon commence a series of roundtables with peak anti-racism organisations to progress the plan.
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16 March 2021
Australia needs a National Anti-Racism Framework
Hello everyone, wherever you are in Australia. I join you from the lands of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation.
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25 January 2021
Can January 26 ever be the day that all Australians unite and rejoice in our sense of collective belonging?
In the months, weeks, days leading up to this January 26, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to belong to a place, a country and to the culture of a nation.
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10 December 2020
We have failed to recognise the contributions of First Nations women and girls
They are set-out and responded to in the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices): Securing our Rights, Securing our Future 2020 Report.
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10 December 2020
Landmark report - First Nations women and girls
Wiyi Yani U Thangani—(Women’s Voices)—Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future Report 2020 is a comprehensive, whole-of-life document and the result of over a hundred engagements with thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls of all ages in remote, very remote, regional and urban communities.
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13 October 2020
Government should consult on English language visa requirements
Commissioner Tan said the inclusion of this policy in the budget came as a surprise to key stakeholders in the multicultural sector and a lack of information about the policy had created justifiable concern among members of the Australian community.
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03 June 2020
Calls to end Indigenous deaths in custody
The global focus on these events reminds Australians of the unacceptably high rates of incarceration and deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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25 May 2020
Turning the Uluru Statement into action
From all points of the southern sky, we gathered in the centre of the country we’ve called home for more than 60 thousand years, to endorse a statement that would pave the way for First Nations peoples to have a voice enshrined in the Constitution.