cyberracism
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Basic Online Safety Expectations
In October 2021 the Online Hate Prevention Institute provided a submission to the Australian Government’s consultation on the draft Online Safety (Basic Online Safety Expectations) Determination. Today, the new Ministerial Determination was announced and has come into effect. In our submission we stated: We believe the Government has correctly set the roles of Government, Social…
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Building SMARTER Communities of Resistance and Solidarity
We’re changing the game on cyber-racism. A journal article published today in “Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal” by our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, and Karen Connelly introduces the new version of OHPI’s reporting tool and the broader picture of how it can integrate and empower both individuals and organisations across the community. The journal…
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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, while a third group seek to present it as another version of “Muslim extremism”. Here’s a few examples of what we’ve seen: Case 1: Racism The Reclaim…
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OHPI represented at a national conference on multiculturalism
On November 5-6, 2015, the FECCA 2015 National Biennial Conference was held in Sydney. The focus of the conference was Multiculturalism in Action: Building a better future for all Australians, and it dedicated an entire panel discussion to the subject of Cyber Racism. Karen Connelly, a doctoral student at the UTS, represented the Online Hate Prevention Institute on the panel.…