Keywords: Racial Vilification
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 10 April 2011
20 Comments
The litigation against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt shows the limitation of a court-focused, plaintiff-led approach to racial vilification. There are alternative ways of responding to racial and religious vilification that do not involve litigation.
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MEDIA
- Ellena Savage
- 01 April 2011
36 Comments
Some perceive the racial vilification case against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt as a challenge to free speech. But this case is about more than silencing critiques of the construction of race, and indeed Bolt himself.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 18 June 2010
14 Comments
Timana Tahu left the NSW State of Origin team after racist comments by assistant coach Andrew Johns. AFL heavyweight Mal Brown described Aboriginal players as cannibals. Why is it an insult to call someone black?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 11 May 2009
2 Comments
While it is inherently racist for a person to claim membership of the
best race, it is no bad thing for a religious person to claim
membership of the one true religion. That is what religious people do.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Saeed Saeed
- 03 October 2008
The Catch the Fire Ministries religious vilification case was used for political means by both Muslims and Christians. Deen's account discusses wider issues such as the global rise of Islamaphobia, John
Howard's identity politics and the Cronulla
Riots.
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RELIGION
- Peter Hodge
- 03 April 2008
2 Comments
Not all behaviour that offends religious beliefs amounts to vilification. However, when freedom of
expression results in incitement to religious hatred,
a line has been crossed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 February 2008
1 Comment
This week we heard that the Ten Network has snared the rights to the forthcoming Indian Premier League series from Channel Nine. For three decades, broadcast cricket has been synonymous with Nine, which has delivered many advances including 'stump cam'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Maria Vamvakinou
- 30 October 2006
Whilst many see and use dialogue as a way to identify our similarities, its true value often lay in the way it can teach us to recognise and respect other people’s differences, and to see difference as valuable in and of itself.
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RELIGION
- Beth Doherty
- 06 June 2006
'Should I shake someone’s hand or will it offend?’ ‘Should I have my head covered?’ ‘Will they think I’m really thick if I ask why they do that?’. These were some of the common concerns for the 30 young people involved in a multi-faith experiment in late January.
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EDUCATION
- Joanna Leonard
- 22 May 2006
The move to private education is not always what parents might hope.
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