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George Floyd Protests: A Timeline – The New York Times, Derrick Bryson Taylor 09/06/2020
At least six people have been killed in violence connected to the protests that started after Mr. Floyd died in police custody….

Hard Truths on Q+A – ABC, Naaman Zhou 08/06/2020
Protests are sweeping the streets of America and here too, with some describing it as a long overdue reckoning for Australia…

‘I can’t breathe’: Australia’s Black Lives Matter protests – The Guardian, 06/06/2020
The Sydney ‘Black lives matter’ protest was ruled unlawful by the New South Wales supreme court on Friday before being overturned by the court of appeal minutes before the protest was due to start…

Survey of Covid-19 racism against Asian Australians records 178 incidents in two weeks – The Guardian, Naaman Zhou 17/04/2020
A database of racist incidents against Asian Australians has received 178 responses in two weeks, as Queensland police also condemned a rise in anti-Asian racism during the Covid-19…

Australian doctors warn of rise in racist abuse over coronavirus – The Guardian, Naaman Zhou 04/02/2020
Doctors have warned of a rise in racist incidents as Asian-Australians have been targeted amid coronavirus fears. ….

Scott Morrison lashes ‘repeat offender’ Fraser Anning over neo-Nazi rally – The Sydney Morning Herald, Michael Koziol 07/01/2019
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blasted Fraser Anning as a “repeat offender” on racism, backing calls for the senator to consider his parliamentary future before the next election….

Coalition backs Pauline Hanson’s ‘It’s OK to be white’ motion – The Sydney Morning Herald, Latika Bourke 15/10/2018
Ms Hanson, best known for her views against various minority groups over time including indigenous Australians, Asians and most recently Muslims, put forward the motion to the Senate on Monday….

Anger, sadness, shame: Stories by Indigenous Australians hit home – The Sydney Morning Herald, Nicole Abadee 22/09/2018
Dr Anita Heiss’s wonderful new anthology is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the enduring sense of hurt and injustice experienced by Aboriginal people. …

Crazy Rich Asians made me laugh and cry, but it also gave me hope – The Sydney Morning Herald, Michelle Law 25/08/2018
It’s impossible to articulate to my white friends just how significant a film such as Crazy Rich Asians is to people of the east Asian diaspora. As an Asian Australian…

David Dungay Jr dies in custody, and his family are changed forever – photo essay, The Guardian, Carly Earl 13/07/2018
Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned photographs/videos in this article contain images of deceased persons.
In the three years since David’s death, his family have campaigned to raise awareness of Indigenous deaths in custody. Carly Earl visits them in Kempsey on the eve of the inquest..

Bruce Djite challenges Australian football to tackle racism head-on – The Daily Telegraph, Tom Smithies 20/03/2014
YOU can tell by the way he plays that Bruce Djite doesn’t mind putting his head into some uncomfortable places… But flying boots aren’t the only thing the Adelaide striker is prepared to risk. As an ambassador for the anti-racism charity All Together Now…

White silence cannot dim the heroes of Utopia – Sydney Morning Herald, Adam Goodes 7/3/2014
For the last few weeks, I’ve seen a film bring together Aboriginal people all over Australia . The buzz around Utopia – a documentary by John Pilger – has been unprecedented. Some 4000 people attended the open-air premiere in Redfern last month – both indigenous and nonindigenous Australians…

Adam Goodes: the right man for Australian of the Year – The Age, Andrew Webster 21/01/14
The most ill-advised argument anyone could make right now is that Adam Goodes was named Australian of the Year for calling out a 13-year-old girl at the MCG in between chasing a piece of inflated red leather around a footy oval…

Boat arrivals are a drop in the ocean – The Age, Rachel Ball 7/06/10
The major parties exploit prejudice to cast a small problem as a big crisis. The Labor Party is trying to crack open a nut with a sledgehammer. Distressingly, the nut is a small group of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat…

Innocence lost as recruitment of children continues – The Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion: Steven Freeland 15/02/10
There are approximately 300,000 children acting as front-line troops in armed conflict worldwide, with another 500,000 who are conscripted into government, paramilitary and guerilla groups as sex slaves, porters, cooks, spies and to plant landmines…

Focus on the Human Factor – The Age, Opinion: Sujatha Singh, India’s high commissioner to Australia. 10/02/10
The assaults on Indian students and members of the larger Indian community in Australia over the past few months have puzzled us all, Indians and Australians alike. The fundamental issue is the growing number of attacks, which seem to be disproportionately affecting Indians, especially in and around Melbourne..

Sarkoz’s state of the nation dress: no burqas, please – The Sydney Morning Herald, Paola Totaro 24/06/09
THE FRENCH President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has thrown his weight behind a ban on wearing the burqa in public – before a new parliamentary inquiry has reported on the proposal…

Racist bullying rife in (British) schools – The Times Educational Supplement, Adi Bloom 24/04/09
Policies to tackle discrimination against teachers and pupils are not being used. More than half of all teachers say racist bullying takes place in their schools, according to a new survey…

100th Anniversary of the NAACP – U.S. Department of Education, Press release 12/02/09
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made the following statement regarding the 100th Anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)…

When MySpace ends in tears – Fairfax Digital, The Age, Calliste Weitenberg 1/02/08
Australian teachers are failing to effectively intervene in school cyber bullying, with “significant progress” needed to help bring them up to speed with interactive internet tools….

Refugees scared of citizenship test – NineMSN, Kellee Nolan 29/04/08
A fear of failing Australia’s citizenship test is stopping refugees from applying to become citizens, a Victorian ethnic group says…

Don’t touch people without permission, UK immigrants to be told – Express India 05/02/08
Britain is planning to come up with an etiquette guideline for new immigrants, who will be told not to spit in the streets, grope women, or litter and learn how to stand in queues…

Islam and its Catholic connection – The Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion: Peter Manning 04/05/07
In Federal Parliament last year, Senator John Faulkner argued there was once a minority religion in Australia that threatened the fabric of our society, whose members bred faster than the rest of “us” and whose poor and uneducated were taught…

Media must take responsibility for perceptions they help shape – Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Media release 13/04/07
Media, journalists and commentators must continue to take their responsibilities seriously, National Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma asserted today…

Veils and Vegemite – The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, Randa Abdel-Fattah 17/02/07
Buy a bikini. Go easy on the prayer. Sink a few coldies. Then you’ll be true blue, mate. Muslim Australians are being asked to “fit in” but, asks Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has the right to define what is Aussie? And why do we need to?…

No prizes for playing second fiddle to the school grunts – The Sydney Morning Herald, Mark Yeow 31/01/07
I’M NOT sure what happened. I study hard and get good grades. I play a musical instrument, I debate and I have friends. I appear to be a well-rounded, perfectly happy teenager. But I’m not. I’m bad at sport…

ABC gets stricter editorial guidelines – The Sydney Morning Herald 16/10/06
The ABC’s managing director has outlined to staff strict new editorial guidelines designed to tackle perceptions of bias at the national broadcaster…

William Deane blasts citizenship test – The Sydney Morning Herald 8/10/06
The federal government’s plans for citizenship tests on Australian culture and values has drawn another high profile critic, former governor-general Sir William Deane…

More than a cease fire needed – The New York Times 21/07/06
Lebanon needs more than U.S. marines to evacuate Americans. It needs the fighting to stop and the international community to step in and guarantee the security of Israel and Lebanon. That will require not only a cease-fire and peacekeepers but also a guarantee that Hezbollah will be forced to halt its attacks on Israel permanently…

Prejudice in any form shames us – The Sun-Herald, Hugh Mackay 18/6/06
If a person behaves badly, the bad behaviour should be criticised, not the ethnicity or other characteristics of the person concerned. But the perpetrators of bad behaviour, whether in the street or the boardroom, play a cowardly game when they try to discredit legitimate attacks on them as being solely or even partly the product of prejudice…

Australia’s World XI – The Sydney Morning Herald, Steve Meacham 1/6/06
GERMAN-born Doris Schwarzer still remembers a conversation she had with her butcher in western Sydney in the 1980s. He asked what sport her son Mark played. When she told him soccer – as the game was then called – he said: “Soccer is for softies. A real man plays football.” …

Geoffrey Lee & Bilel Jideh – The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, Greg Bearup 6/5/05
“I had this vague idea I wanted to go to uni, but I didn’t know how I could achieve it. Geoff showed me the way.”…

How schools deal with racism – BBC News, Justin Parkinson 6/4/2006
Name-calling has always been a part of school life. Children pick up on differences of size, looks and, sometimes, race. A judge has been plastered across the press for his comments about a case involving a 10-year-old boy from Salford, Greater Manchester…

Digital divide closing as blacks turn to internet – The New York Times, Michel Marriot 31/3/2006
African-Americans are steadily gaining access to and ease with the Internet, signaling a remarkable closing of the “digital divide” that many experts had worried would be a crippling disadvantage in achieving success…

Students request the due respect – St George and Sutherland Shire Leader 2/3/2006
St George and Sutherland Shire students have criticised the nation’s leaders for further alienating Muslim youth…

Zambia’s plight goes begging in year of disasters – The New York Times, Michael Wines 23/2/2006
NANGWESHI REFUGEE CAMP, Zambia — Hundreds of refugees from Angola’s civil warhave walked away from this remote United Nations outpost where most have lived for years, many roaming on foot as far as the Namibia border, 85 miles away…

Refugees wait for 20 years – The Australian, Greg Roberts 20/1/2006
WEST Papuan asylum-seekers who arrived in Australia 20 years ago are still waiting for a decision on their applications for permanent residency…

Explosion in the suburbs – The Guardian, Naima Boueldja 7/11/2005
The riots now sweeping France are the product of years of racism, poverty and police brutality. In late 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, Alain Touraine, the French sociologist, predicted: “It will only be a few years…

Rosa Parks, founding symbol of US civil rights movement, dies – The New York Times, E.R Shipp 25/10/2005
Rosa Parks’s refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., helped touch off the civil rights movement in the US…

Outrage at Asian parking slur – The Sydney Morning Herald, Tim Dick 7/10/2005
Parking signs at Cabramatta should be written in Chinese because Asian drivers are so poor at parking that the local council issues more tickets there than anywhere else, a Labor councillor believes…

Racism hits Koori students’ work hopes – The Age, David Rood 19/9/2005
Racism remains the biggest barrier to employment for Kooris who have completed vocational education. Research has found that “systemic barriers” may be preventing indigenous students from obtaining qualifications and jobs…

AFL crowns indigenous team of the century – The Age, Jesse Hogan 1/8/2005
Champion Geelong ruckman Graham “Polly” Farmer was today named as captain of the indigenous team of the century…

Just who is un-Australian? – The Age, Hugh Mackay 20/6/2005
It’s the new term of chastisement, but what exactly does it mean, asks Hugh Mackay.

Vietnamese Australians sing Fraser’s praises – The Age, Larry Schwartz 6/6/2005
Hung Chau was 21 when he fled Saigon on a 10-metre boat in late 1977. He had heard on radio of the Fraser government’s policies to welcome boat people and others, and read newspapers about Australia in Pulau Tengah camp in Malaysia…

New mayor talks his way across Los Angeles’s divides – The New York Times, John M Broder 30/5/2005
New Mayor Talks His Way Across Los Angeles’s Divides. A bright but irrepressible boy who was thrown out of one high school and dropped out of another, Antonio had ambitions to match his mouth, telling one disbelieving teacher that he planned to be a lawyer, even as the school shuffled him off to an upholstery class…

Honour migrant achievers: Pratt – The Australian, David Nason 16/5/2005
BILLIONAIRE cardboard king and philanthropist Richard Pratt wants to establish a new category of annual awards in Australia to honour the contribution of migrants to the development of the nation…