Cultural Diversity News
DCA condemns Qantas black-face contest
Wednesday, 31 August 2011 18:24
Nareen Young, CEO of the Diversity Council of Australia writes: In a recent competition to win free tickets to a rugby union game, two fans blackened their faces to look like their favourite player of another race. To their credit, the young men who performed the prank apologised as soon as they were made aware of the offence it caused. However, people who believe it was a harmless bit of fun fail to take into account the origins of the ‘blackface’ practice and the racist stereotypes it perpetuates. (See the article)
The Age's John Elder reports on ethnic violence
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 16:33
John Elder The Age August 21, 2011
Serbian fans at the Australia-Serbia
international soccer friendly in June light flares and give the three-fingered
salute of the nationalist Chetniks.
It's easy to condemn ethnic violence in
Australia but harder to resolve it. John Elder reports on attempts to build
trust between communities scarred by decades of conflict
ON A Tuesday night in June, Father Milan
Milutinovic took his two young sons to a friendly soccer match between Serbia
and Australia at Etihad Stadium.
New Government Council on Multiculturalism: challenge for action
Monday, 22 August 2011 14:36
Joint Media Release with Julia Gillard - Prime Minister of Australia, Chris Bowen MP - Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Senator Kate Lundy - Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs The Gillard Labor Government today launched a new local ambassadors program to champion inclusion and highlight the benefits of Australia’s diversity. The People of Australia Ambassadors program was formally announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard today at the launch of the new independent Australian Multicultural Council. The Prime Minister encouraged Australians to nominate local champions from their own neighbourhood and communities who have helped to promote inclusion and participation in their community.
Read more: New Government Council on Multiculturalism: challenge for action
Remember The Sydney Riots?
Friday, 19 August 2011 15:31
The political posturing on law and order in the UK is all too familiar. Just as in Redfern and Macquarie Fields, the connections between crime, policing and poverty are fraught, writes Adam Brereton
"There are no excuses for this behaviour and I’m not going to have it said that this behaviour is caused by social disadvantage … A lot of people grew up in circumstances of disadvantage and they did not go out and attack police with bricks and light fires in the street."
Although it could have been said yesterday by David Cameron or Boris Johnson, this quote is from Bob Carr, in the aftermath of the 2005 Macquarie Fields riots. A year earlier he exactly foreshadowed Cameron’s pronouncements on London’s violence when he described rioting by Redfern’s Indigenous community as "criminality, plain and simple".
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