Tag Archives: Racism

Symbolic acts can heal wounds

By Amy McQuire, June 3, 2013
Sydney Swans superstar Adam Goodes.

NATIONAL: Once again Australia is talking about racism, writes AMY MCQUIRE*.

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Winmar ‘sad’ at racist abuse in AFL

By Tracker, May 21, 2013
The iconic image of Nicky Winmar, which made the AFL confront the issue of racism.

AFL: AFL great Nicky Winmar is sad to see Indigenous players still being abused 20 years after he made his symbolic stand against racism in sport.

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AT LARGE: All roads lead to Byron… and blackfellas

By Tracker, May 8, 2013
The Aboriginal flag flying high at the Byron Bay Bluesfest

NATIONAL: Music, at least for me, is an intensely personal thing. I was fortunate to be raised by parents who have a great love of music, so they made sure that my three brothers and I got a good musical education, writes CHRIS GRAHAM.

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Melb taxi drivers may dodge racism probe

By Tracker, May 3, 2013

VICTORIA: Four Melbourne taxi drivers who refused to carry Aboriginal actors may never be formally punished because the group hasn’t lodged a complaint with the industry watchdog.

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Drunk, naked West Australian uni students hit the streets to sell racist hate-speech… all in the name of charity

By Chris Graham, April 18, 2013
Some of the team behind Prosh, directors Maitlyn Hansen and Raymond Maujean and Prosh editor Sam Bayford (2nd, 3rd and 4th from left) with Perth's Nova morning crew, Nathan (far left), Nat and Shawn (right).

MORE than 1,000 West Australian university students – many of them drunk and at least some of them naked – hit the streets of Perth early yesterday morning to help promote racist hate-speech which depicts Aboriginal people as lazy, alcoholic, petrol sniffers, and which attacks land rights, tent embassies and Aboriginal art.

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Racist taunts an ongoing problem: inquiry

By Tracker, April 9, 2013
Hands

NEW SOUTH WALES: If the NSW government makes racist taunts a crime, people could push back making life worse for minority groups, a state parliamentary inquiry has been warned.

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Former KKK supporter who apologised for past dies

By Tracker, April 2, 2013
Former KKK member and congressman Elwin Wilson.

UNITED STATES: A former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologised for years of violent racism, including the beating of a civil rights activist who went on to become a Georgia congressman, has died.

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Appeal for man in O’Shane ‘errors’ case

By Tracker, March 19, 2013
NSW Magistrate Pat O'Shane.

NEW SOUTH WALES: A man whose case was reheard after being dismissed by Sydney magistrate Pat O’Shane is appealing his conviction for assaulting a paramedic.

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Discrimination bill ‘needs redrafting’: inquiry

By Tracker, February 22, 2013

NATIONAL: The federal government’s proposed reform of anti-discrimination law needs substantial redrafting to remove a number of flaws, a parliament committee has found.

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No fallout for Laming after tweet gaffe

By Tracker, January 15, 2013
Shadow Parliamentary secretary for Indigenous health Andrew Laming.

QUEENSLAND: The federal coalition’s Indigenous health spokesman will keep his job despite widespread criticism of his comments on Twitter about clashes in a multicultural community south of Brisbane.

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