Press Releases
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Monthly Campaigns for 2020
As we enter our 9th year tackling online hate extremism we are pleased to announce a new approach with monthly campaigns focused on specific areas of online hate. While we will continue to address these and other areas of online hate throughout the year, our focused campaigns will enable forward planning, opportunities for volunteers and…
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Online Hate Prevention Institute Turns Eight!
The Online Hate Prevention Institute turns 8 today. As we celebrate these 8 years of impact, reducing the risk from online hate and extremism, we are also pleased to announce our plans for the future. Since we were founded in January 2012 the volume of online hate has risen year on year. It has increasingly…
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APPOINTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Rising global recognition of the danger of online hate and its contribution to deadly terrorist attacks in 2019 has highlighted the urgent need for more to be done. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) was established in 2012 with the expressed purpose of combating online hate in its many forms. The Institute has recently gone…
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Stopping Trolling and Gendered Based Hate
Victorian Member of Parliament and leader of the Reason Party Fiona Patten has announced a push to introduce a bill to the Victorian parliament “designed to stop trolling in its tracks”. Her proposal is to alter the existing Racial and Religious Tolerance Act to give it wider coverage. Her press release states: “Racial and Religious…
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YouTube strengthens response to hate
YouTube have just made three important changes to their policies to strengthen their efforts against hate. These moves are warmly welcomed by the Online Hate Prevention Institute which has noted the use of YouTube as a preferred channel for the promotion of certain types of hate, in part due to YouTube’s unwillingness to remove such…
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Australia becomes 33rd member of IHRA
Late on Tuesday night, 4 June 2019, Australia was admitted as the thirty-third membership of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) following a unanimous vote of the plenary in Luxembourg. This has been a four-year process supported by the United Kingdom, as Australia’s mentor, led by Lord Eric Pickles. IHRA is the international and intergovernmental…
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OHPI welcome’s Facebook action on White Supremacy
The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes the news that from next week Facebook will be taking greater efforts to ban white supremacy on the Facebook and Instagram platforms. Facebook and Twitter took similar action against the Alt-Right after Charlottesville. That move significantly dented the Alt-Right and we expect this latest move in the fight against…
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Annual Report 2018
Following our AGM, we share a summary of information from the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s Annual Report, reflecting on our activities, impact and the road ahead.
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Car Attack in Flinders Street Melbourne
On December 21st 2017 a car deliberately drove through pedestrians outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. 19 people were injured and one later died in hospital. The driver was known to police and had a history of mental health issues and drug abuse. An Australian citizen of Afghan background, he had come to Australia as…
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PRESS RELEASE: Join The Debate Without Hate Campaign
The Online Hate Prevention Institution, Australia’s only charity dedicated to preventing harm from online hate, launches the ‘Debate Without Hate’ campaign for the Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey Melbourne, September 28, 2017 – The Online Hate Prevention Institution (OHPI) will officially launch the nationwide ‘Debate Without Hate’ campaign today. The campaign aims to support community cohesion…