Press Releases
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Press Release: OHPI announces “Unity in Diversity on Australia Day” campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A day-long campaign “Unity in Diversity on Australia Day” will promote positive Australian values and encourage the reporting of bigotry and racism throughout tomorrow (January […]
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Survivor Island 3: What can we learn from the incident
Last week, racism against Aboriginal Australians in digital spaces plumbed new depths as news came out of an online game included killing of Aboriginal Australians as a game plotline, […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Shurat Hadin Facebook experiment on Kill Israelis and Kill Palestinians
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A number of people sent us a video of an experiment by an Israeli NGO, Sherut Hadin. In the video they created two hate pages, […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Marc Knobel joins OHPI International Advisory Board
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) is pleased to welcome Mr Marc Knobel as a new member of our International Advisory Board (IAB). The IAB […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Improvements at Twitter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Online Hate Prevention Institute is please to welcome changes announced by Twitter which will help reduce online hate. In the last three years there […]
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Anti-Muslim Internet Hate: Interim Report to mark International Human Rights Day
To mark the International Human Rights Day today, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), Australia’s national charity dedicated to combating all forms of online hate, has released an interim […]
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OHPI represented at a national conference on multiculturalism
On November 5-6, the FECCA 2015 National Biennial Conference dedicated an entire panel discussion to the subject of Cyber Racism. Karen Connelly, a doctoral student at the UTS, represented the Online Hate […]
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Response to attacks on Paris and Beirut
Terrorists attacked Beirut (Lebanon) on Thursday killing 46 and Paris (France) on Friday with night killing 158. The attack in Beirut involved a twin bombing. The coordinated attacks […]
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Minister Robin Scott commends OHPI’s work
Today OHPI received a letter from the Minister of Multicultural Affairs for Victoria, Robin Scott, in which he acknowledges the rise in far-right activity in the state and commends the […]
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OHPI featured in BBC News
The Online Hate Prevention Institute was recently featured as part of the BBC’s coverage of Mike Wendling, who was recently arrested by the FBI on charges of inciting […]