Publications
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Conspiracy Theories
We’ve been seeing an increase in the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. Many of these conspiracy theories spread hate against particular groups in society. They then portray any effort to prevent this spread of hate not as an effort to protect groups and individuals whose human dignity is being attacked, but rather as…
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Responding to Christchurch: Tackling Online Hate and Extremism
Following the terrorist attack in Christchurch New Zealand, live streamed on Facebook, which left 50 people dead hate speech and extremism online as in the spotlight. As Australia’s only Harm Prevention Charity dedicated to to tackling online hate and extremism we at the Online Hate Prevention Institute have suddenly found ourselves and our work in…
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Face-to-face with “predator trolls” who “weren’t born that way” – with cyberhate expert and author Ginger Gorman
by Carly McClen, images by Hilary Wardhaugh. “Absolute freedom of speech online leads to places like 8Chan which played a significant role in radicalising Brenton Tarrant, in turn leading to the tragic events that unfolded in New Zealand. Without controls, an online space can spiral out of control creating a toxic culture that feeds on…
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New Zealand Terrorist Attack
A report by Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute. On March 15 2019, 50 people were killed in a terrorist attack in New Zealand. They were shot by a lone gunman who targeted two mosques in Christchurch during Friday prayers. The gunman, an Australian citizen living in New Zealand, has been…
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Being Australian
Some Australian have ancestors who came here over 50,000 years ago and were, according to research published in Nature, the worlds earliest explorers. The cultures of our Indigenous people’s are rich and diverse and represent some of the oldest living cultures on earth. There are, for example, almost 150 Indigenous languages in daily use in…
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Far Right Nationalism on Facebook
This is the second in a series and further focuses on the extreme nationalism of the Far Right Facebook pages followed by a commenter on our Facebook Page who claims to be “a centre related person”. By extreme nationalism we do not mean the type of nationalism that celebrates the diversity of cultures in Australia…
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Normalising Far Right Views
As part of our campaign on monitoring far-right groups in the lead up to Australia day we highlight one of the tactics of the far right is to claim that they are not actually far right and that their views are typical of normal every day Australians. In this way they hope to appeal to…
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Senator Anning’s Hate Machine
On January 5th Fraser Anning, an Australian Senator, attended a far right rally at St Kilda beach in Melbourne. The rally was called by former United Patriots Front leaders Blair Cottrell and Neil Erikson, men with criminal convictions for serious vilification of minorities – that’s an speech that either threatens or incites violence against a…
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She’ll be right mate
While moderating our page we came across a post from someone whose parents who immigrated to Australia from Europe. In this post they suggest racism was much worse in the 1950s to 1980s. That is true for European immigrants, and likely for society as a whole, but doesn’t do much for Sudanese-Australians, Muslim-Australians or indeed…
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Everything in moderation
Today we received a fair about of media attention due to our work on racism and the far-right. It started with an article in today’s Age. Just after 8am we were interviewed on talk-back radio at 3AW Breakfast. In the afternoon it was 7:30 from the ABC recording an interview which aired later that evening.…