Aboriginal Memes
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Aboriginal Memes on Facebook
We first tackled online racism against Indigenous Australians back in 2012. At that time, the problem was on Facebook – as a number of pages had been created […]
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Racism Against Indigenous Australians on Instagram
Instagram not only hosts racist content, but entire accounts dedicated to sharing racist memes and which encourage others to do the same.
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Campaign on Racism against Indigenous Australians
Through March 2020 the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) will be running a campaign tackling racism against Indigenous Australians. While we’ve been working on this problem since we […]
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Emboldening those promoting bigotry
Yesterday we warned that a bill introduced to the Senate on Wednesday by the Government was seeking to water down Australia’s laws against racial discrimination to promote the interests […]
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Update on AFL Memes
Following our briefing on AFL Memes and our e-mail to Facebook, the two worst examples from the page were removed on June 3rd. Ten day’s later the page […]
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NRL Memes
On May 31st the NRL Memes page (ID: 349532781801156) which has 196,542 supporters posted a meme using a picture of a gorilla with the message R.I.P. Sam Thaiday. The Gorilla […]
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Trolling the AFL with racism and misogyny
June 23 2016: WIN! This page has been removed, but additional problems exist. For an update on this story, see our AFL Memes Update. The AFL Memes page […]
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OHPI attends RDA@40
OHPI attended the conference RDA@40 in Sydney on February 19 and 20, 2015 organised the Australian Human Rights Commission. The conference was held to mark the 40th anniversary […]
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Racism against First Nations
OHPI stands against racism. You can see a detailed list of all our publications on online racism here. However, we take a particular interest in campaigning against online […]
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Racism
One of the most significant forms of hate speech that OHPI combats is online racism. The Macquarie Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2013) defines racism as: noun 1. the belief […]