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Media coverage & Press releases
The following coverage comes from: ABC News, ABC News Tonight, ABC Religion & Ethic, The Australian, 10 Daily, South China Morning Post, The Daily Dot, Audiatur Online, J-Wire, Buzzfeed News, Medium, J-Air Radio, The Australian Jewish News, The Media Line, SBS World News, ECAJ, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sputnik International, Griffith News, China Daily Global, The New Daily, Australian Financial Review, 7:30 Report, Business Insider, Illinois Times.
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Normalising Holocaust Denial, Aboriginal Memes and more
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), the national harm prevention charity dedicated to online hate issues, today warned that proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will have the effect of normalising Holocaust denial, racist Aboriginal memes and more in social media. The charity’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, today highlighted the important role of the…
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ABC gives green light to hate speech
A couple of weeks ago the Online Hate Prevention Institute called out the ABC for sparking Facebook hate and then assuming that having moderators automatically meant there was no hate speech on the ABC Facebook page. The posts by the ABC and comments in response from users related to a highly controversial ABC Four Corners program…
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Potential Fight Over Federal Racial Discrimination Act s 18C: Unbolting “Bolt”
February 25, 2014, www.timebase.com.au, http://www.timebase.com.au/news/2014/AT097-article.html Recent press has reported that Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (the Attorney) has said that the Federal criminal laws banning racial violence “have been too narrowly drawn” in that they should in fact also prohibit the “incitement to racial hatred”. This appears to be a deviation from the Attorney’s (and his government’s) previously…
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Facebook & Wix act on Aboriginal Memes
Over the last few days the Online Hate Prevention Institute has been in contact with Facebook and Wix (a company offering do it yourself websites) over another lot of racist content directed against Indigenous Australians. As before the new content focused on “Aboriginal Memes”. Following contact by OHPI, both Facebook and Wix promptly took action…
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NIRS interviews OHPI
February 11, 2014: National Indigenous Radio Service discusses OHPI’s work A newsgrab of the interviews reports: The Online Hate Prevention Institute says governments must intervene in eliminating racist content being posted to social media sites. The comments, from Chief Executive Andre Oboler, come with the recent removal of an Aboriginal memes page from Facebook. That…
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Statement: OHPI raises concerns over ideas to alter AHRC
STATEMENT: In an article in today’s Australian (‘Dreyfus slams bid to tweak race law’, 7 Feb 2014, page 27) Senator Brandis is said to have indicated he is considering amending the law governing the Australian Human Rights Commission. Changes being considered would remove the requirement for human rights commissioners to act collegially. Senator Brandis claim this…