anti-Aboriginal hate
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Ignorance and Bigotry
An excellent opinion piece by Jenna Price in The Age last Tuesday looked at bigotry and ignorance in Australian society. The article “Ignorant Australians are the threat to my society – Fear of the other is alive and well, and damaging” comments on new research by Matteo Vergani at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and…
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Racism against Indigenous Australians on Twitter
The Online Hate Prevention Institute regularly comments on racism in social media against Indigenous Australia. Most recently we discussed this topic with Hack on Triple J. We have an archive of our past work on this topic and our report into Aboriginal Memes brought the topic to the attention of UNESCO. With a few exceptions, the racism…
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An interview with Hack on Triple J
On August 29 2016 in Boulder, near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, a stolen motorcycle driven by a 14-year-old Aboriginal boy and a utility vehicle driven by a 55-year-old man collided. The boy, Elijah Doughty, was killed at the scene and the man charged with manslaughter. The man appeared in court the next day. Violence broke…
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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 is Harambe from Cincinnati Zoo, who had just been shot and killed by the Zoo as part of an effort to rescue a child who fell into the…
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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 (ID: 258629594224050) has been around since March 2012 and currently has 196,334 supporters. It’s address is https://www.facebook.com/TrollAFL1 clearly identifying it as a trolling page. Trolling occurs in social media…
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Blackface and Social Media
Over the last few hours the picture below of what appears to be a couple of Indigenous Australians in traditional dress has been causing serious outrage on social media and started to be picked up by the news media. The reason for this outrage is that neither of the people pictured are Indigenous, further, their…
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Where do trolls come from and how do we stop their cyberbullying?
The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been fielding a number of media questions about online trolling and abuse in recent days. We’ve discussed the issue on radio this week with 3AW’s Tom Elliott and K-Rock’s Hunter McLeod. There are number of types of online trolling we deal with at the Online Hate Prevention Institute and…
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OHPI’s CEO Dr Andre Oboler interviewed by the NIRS
The NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service broadcasted an interview with Dr Andre Oboler last week on the swift removal of a racist anti-Aboriginal page. The page was removed within 24 hours of OHPI highlighting it in a briefing.
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OHPI’s CEO Dr Andre Oboler interviewed by the NIRS
Grace Pashley, Racist Facebook Page taken down, March 25, 2015, National Indigenous Radio Service, http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Racist-Facebook-page-taken-down-1 The NIRS – National Indigenous Radio Service broadcasted an interview with Dr Andre Oboler last week on the swift removal of a racist anti-Aboriginal page. The page was removed within 24 hours of OHPI highlighting it in a briefing. You…
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Success! OHPI gets hate removed
On Harmony Day, March 21, 2015, we initiated a social media campaign asking our supporters to report three hateful images on Facebook. One was antisemitic, another anti-Muslim and the third image was anti-Aboriginal. A big thanks to all our supporters who participated in the campaign by reporting the images to both Facebook and to our…