The Reconciliation Barometer [PDF], a research study is launched with the objective of developing a tool to measure the progress of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians.
Ms Dhu, a young, Yamatji woman was arrested and taken into police custody for failure to pay fines in 2014 and she later died in detention. Ms Dhu was already injured as a result of domestic violence at the time
Senator Pauline Hanson wears a burqa into the Senate which she claims “oppresses women”. Attorney-General George Brandis receives a standing ovation from Australian Labor Party and Australian Greens senators after he makes an “emotional” speech declaring, “To ridicule that community, to
The Uluru Statement from the Heart [PDF] by delegates to an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Referendum Convention, at Uluru in Central Australia. The statement calls for a ‘First Nations Voice’ in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a
ANTaR, a national advocacy organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights calls for a respectful national discussion [PDF] to find an alternative date for Australia Day.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s annual Report on Antisemitism [PDF] in Australia 2017 notes a substantial increase (9.5 per cent) in the number of anti-Semitic incidents compared to the 2015-16 period, which it attributes to the rise of far-right activity.
Research by the television network SBS for the documentary entitled ‘Is Australia Racist [PDF]’ finds there is much support for multiculturalism but also demonstrates some ‘limits’ to the extent to which cultural diversity is viewed as beneficial to the nation.
Melbourne’s “family-friendly” Moomba Festival is disrupted when street fights break out. The response to the events of the night spark a wave of unsubstantiated, heavily racialised media narratives about “African gangs”. A Report exploring the effects of media narratives on
The 2016 Census data shows that two thirds (67%) of the Australian population were born in Australia. Of the 6,163,667 overseas-born persons, nearly one in five (18%) had arrived since the start of 2012. While England and New Zealand were still the
A shocking video showing a 17-year-old boy, Dylan Voller being strapped into a mechanical restraint chair in the Northern Territory Dondale Youth Detention Centre in March 2016 is aired by the ABC Four Corners program. The Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs subsequently