Responding to racism
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31 May 2024 -
Opinion Editorial by Giridharan Sivaraman. Published by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
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09 May 2020
Where’s all the data on COVID-19 racism?
There have been too many news reports of COVID-19 prompting racial abuse: A Chinese woman was spat on in a Sydney street, two students bashed in the Melbourne CBD, a family’s home vandalised – to list just a few. But the story that struck me most was Jennifer Li’s.
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14 April 2020
Race Discrimination Commissioner welcomes call for national unity from Chinese-Australians
As I have said before, COVID-19 has nothing to do with race or nationality—and neither fear of the virus nor frustration at the difficulties we all face are excuses for abusing people based on race, nationality or ethnicity.
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08 April 2020
Racism undermines COVID-19 Response
As the virus first arrived in Australia, people of Chinese and other Asian backgrounds suffered discrimination, often from those fearful of contracting it.
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08 April 2020
Failure to close the gap in healthcare puts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at increased risk
It’s important at this time that we listen to the health experts, such as the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), follow their advice, and avoid visiting remote communities and putting them at risk. I have been appalled at reports from organisations such as the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association (AIDA) of racism within the healthcare system. Racism is never OK, but at a time like this is it particularly damaging.
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15 March 2020
Commemorating one year since the Christchurch mosque attack
In a joint statement, they said: “The Christchurch massacre was deeply traumatic for New Zealand’s Muslim community.