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Jul 20, 2021 · Calls for national action against racism. Mr Tan said it was time for Australia to adopt a national anti-racism framework, which would include national education campaigns and programs for ...
Jul 20, 2021 · 20th July, 2021. Listen. The Sharing the Stories of Australian Muslims project sought to learn about Australian Muslims’ concerns, priorities and experiences of hate, violence and negative public commentary in the wake of the tragic Christchurch mosque attack. The project is also intended to give Australian Muslims an opportunity to share ...
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- Lack of Media Diversity Plays Role in Negative Commentary
- Long Way to Go in Breaking Stereotypes in Media
Ms Bilal's frustration about racism in the media is also felt by other young women from minority backgrounds. Chinese Australian Yongyan Xia is from Grenfell in the central west of New South Wales and is studying biomedicine in Melbourne. When the COVID-19 pandemic started in Australia earlier this year she tried to avoid reading the news. "A lot o...
Ms McLean said the group observed "increasing forms of covert racism that might be harder to detect". They included "dog whistling" — stoking racial fear without using explicit language — against Muslims, and forms of racism that ignored ongoing colonisation and destruction of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Rona Glynn-McDonald, a K...
Ms McLean also said the Australian media landscape continued to be "dominated by white people" and failed to reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of the population. Eighty-nine per cent of the racist editorials were written by people from an Anglo-Celtic or European background, the report found. "From journalists, presenters, producers and...
Despite often negative portrayals of Muslim women and heated discussions around coverings, Ms Bilal chooses to keep her face veil on. "I feel very enlightened when I do see Muslim women being portrayed in media and the more characteristics that they uphold that do symbolise Islam that is portrayed in media, the more comforting it is and the more en...
Oct 6, 2021 · In the wake of the Christchurch shooting, The Australian Human Rights Commission investigated prejudice against Muslims in Australia. This report found a shocking 80% of Muslim Australians had faced unfavourable treatment based on their ethnicity, race or religion. This racism takes the form of hate, violence or negative comments in public.
Jan 5, 2024 · The post-9/11 era has witnessed an upsurge in prejudice against Muslims in Western societies. Prejudice runs the risk of leading to discrimination if left uncurbed. This review attempts to explore ...
Mar 14, 2022 · The abuse Muslims suffer is centred on the unfounded and highly offensive idea that Muslims are “terrorists” and “killers” – this is despite Muslims suffering from white supremacist ...
Mar 14, 2022 · The report's release coincides with the third anniversary of the 2019 terrorist attacks in New Zealand, where an Australian far-right extremist shot and killed 51 Muslims during Friday prayers.
