anti-Muslim
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Islamophobic Pages and the Targeting of Mosques
This briefing examines how far right Islamophobic pages have turned their attention to targeting mosques in the wake of the recent COVID 19 pandemic. SIOC (Stop Islamization of […]
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Anti-Muslim Groups Turn Their Focus to Chinese and Asian Australians
The page, Australians against Sharia 2 (ID: 1849829035265159), was created on March 15 2017. It currently has 422 people who follow the page and 409 people who have […]
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Bourke Street Attack November 2018
This article is referred to in OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2018 Financial Year. Return to the Report. Background At around 4:10 pm on Friday the 9th of November […]
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Australia Day, African Youth and the Far Right
The Voice of Australia is a page that describes itself as “against animal cruelty – particularly Halal Ritual Slaughter & the Islamisation of Australia”. It’s grown by 1% to 26,343 […]
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The Far Right on African Youth
Far Right groups have jumped on the bank wagon of anti-African sentiment. Some are expressing it as anti-refugee sentiment, other as pure racism against people with dark skin, […]
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Car Attack in Flinders Street Melbourne
On December 21st 2017 a car deliberately drove through pedestrians outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. 19 people were injured and one later died in hospital. The driver […]
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Ultra Conservative Homophobia
After launching our #DebateWithoutHate campaign a Facebook post about the campaign received a number of problematic comments. We documented some of these comments and explained why they were […]
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Can reporting news be hate?
Earlier today OHPI received an e-mail with the message “Very Offensive Y tube video , pl stop this hateful obnoxious video”. It linked to a YouTube video titled […]
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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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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 […]