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Andrew Bolt sued under Victorian Racial and Religious Tolerance Act

By Robert Merkel on September 19, 2010

Right-wing Herald Sun columnist has been sued under Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance act: HERALD Sun columnist Andrew Bolt is being sued under the Racial Vilification Act by a group of Aborigines led by 73-year-old activist Pat Eatock over two [...]

Posted in Law, Race | Tagged andrew bolt, indigenous affairs, Indigenous Australia, racial and religious tolerance act, racism, Victoria | 80 Responses

Population policy and political border control

By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010

As an addendum to Robert’s post on the Rudd government’s announcement of the appointment of Tony Burke as Population Minister, and the call for a national debate on population policy, I wanted to pick up on another aspect of Bernard [...]

Posted in Australiana, Culture, History, Howardia, Immigration, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, bernard keane, Big Australia, boat people, border policing, border security, Culture, discourses, History, Immigration, immigration debate, insularity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Andrews, labor party, Lowy Institute, One Nation, political communication, political culture, poll, population policy, Race, racism, rhetoric, Rudd government, Scott Morrison, survey, Tony Burke | 57 Responses

Government: Don't feed the trolls

By Mark Bahnisch on March 5, 2010

The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. [...]

Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Ethics, Feminism, Life, Media, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Anna Bligh, censorship, child protection, children, Colin Jacobs, content, content management, electronic frontiers australia, elliott fletcher, facebook, freedom of speech, groups, high school, internet, Kevin Rudd, Media, moderation, moral panic, murder, nick xenophon, ombudsman, Ombudsperson, online, privacy, public debate, publishing, racism, sexism, social media, social networking, tribute sights, trinity bates | 24 Responses

Guest post by Tim Watts: “I’m not Racist, but… I’m Complacent"

By Guest Poster on January 14, 2010

My mate Tim Watts, who’s been doing some great work online on violent racist incidents in Melbourne, has provided this guest post. Previous discussion of the spate of attacks on Indian students at LP can be found here. -MB “I’m [...]

Posted in Activism, Australiana, Crime, Culture, Education, Ethics, Immigration, International, Media, Melbourne, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged assaults, attacks, Australia, Australia India Business council, causation, complacency, correlation, Crime, criminology, Culture, denial, disavowal, facebook, google maps, hate crime, Indian students, mapping, Melbourne, Neville Broad, Peter Varghese, police, policing, Politics, racism, simon overland, Sociology, statistics, tim watts, Victoria police, violent incidents, web | 351 Responses

Indian students, structural racism and service industry work

By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2010

One of the debates we should no doubt be having about the spate of violent and racist attacks on Indian students in this country is around the conditions of service work in the less salubrious bits of the service industries [...]

Posted in Australiana, Economics, Education, Industrial Relations, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, globalisation, health and saftey, Immigration, Indian students, Industrial Relations, international students, night time economy, nurses, racism, service industry, Sociology, structural racism, visa, workers, workplace health and safety, workplace safety, zero harm | 132 Responses

Indian students and criminal violence

By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2010

The tragic murder of Nitin Garg has revived debate about violence against Indian students in Australia, spilling over into a range of statements at Ministerial level in both countries. I think there is no doubt that hate crimes occur in [...]

Posted in Crime, International, Melbourne, Politics | Tagged bilateral relationship, criminology, Education, Foreign policy, hate crimes, Indian students, international students, Melbourne, Nitin Garg, racism, universities, violence | 235 Responses

Racist theft

By Idiot/Savant on November 30, 2009

Crossposted from No Right Turn. Australia has some of the worst racial disparities in the developed world. The average household income of indigenous Australians is only 60% of the average. The proportion with high-school or higher educations is only half [...]

Posted in Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged Indigenous policy & reconciliation, politics&govt, racism | 20 Responses

Entrenched racism

By Idiot/Savant on August 28, 2009

Crossposted from No Right Turn. In the run-up to the 2007 election, then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard decided to repeat his successful racial wedge tactics with Aborigines as the victims, declaring a “state of emergency” in Northern Australia, taking over [...]

Posted in Authoritarianism, Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged authoritarian, Culture Wars, human rights, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, intolerance, Kevin Rudd, racism, United Nations | 77 Responses

Cronulla Day?

By Kim on January 27, 2009

What’s with this? In the Sydney suburb of Manly, hundreds of youths draped in “Aussie pride” livery wore slogans declaring “f–k off we’re full” as they smashed car windows and ran up the famous Corso targeting non-white shop keepers. A [...]

Posted in Australiana, Culture, Howardia, Masculinity, Nationalism, Politics, Race, Sydney, Women | Tagged Australia Day, Cronulla, flag, John Howard, Manly, misogyny, racism, riots, Sociology, violence, xenophobia | 156 Responses

Prince Harry

By Kim on January 12, 2009

Colonel Bob Stewart, writing at the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Prince Harry’s comments were little more than everyday army banter. He’s no racist – his heart is definitely in the right place. Since the comedy stylings of Professor David Flint [...]

Posted in Ethics, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, David Flint, Media, military, monarchism, Prince Harry, racism, republicanism, social privilege, Sociology, youtube | 52 Responses

The ultimate public-private partnership?

By Mark Bahnisch on August 5, 2008

In the (new) tradition of rich dude saves the world, someone I’d never heard of, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest – apparently Australia’s richest man, has been putting his head together with Noel Pearson and Kevin Rudd to announce a plan to [...]

Posted in Economics, Energy, Indigenous, International, Poverty, Race, Religion | Tagged Indigenous policy & reconciliation, Kevin Rudd, racism, Sociology | 40 Responses

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