Hate against indigenous australians
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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 itself was closed. The same people, however, have another AFL Memes page with another Adam Goodes meme is still online. The page is Troll AFL [ID: 395819680601992] and has 21,923…
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Responding to Racism and Vigilante Justice
Senator Nova Peris OAM is an Indigenous Australian, a Senator for the Norther Territory in the Australian Parliament and an Olympic gold medalist. We’re hoping we listed that in the order she would consider most important. It is worth noting she was also the first Indigenous Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal. A few days ago she…
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Report Hate against Indigenous Australians on Twitter
Hate against Indigenous Australians is rife on Twitter. Here we share some examples of abusive and hateful comments made against the Indigenous Australian communities. Under the garb of humour, they present Indigenous Australians as unintelligent, drunk and incite violence against them. We share the link below each example. Please report them to Twitter and to…
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Report racist video “Flubba Bubba noonga”
In this briefing, we draw attention to the YouTube video Flubba Bubba noonga that is promoting racist stereotypes of Australia’s aboriginal community. The video is a rap song by two performers. Both the get-up of the singers and the lyrics of the song seek to humiliate Indigenous Australians and deny them their right to human…
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OHPI interviewed on 3AW
Tom Elliot interviews Dr Andre Oboler. “Calls for online trolls to face harsher legal consequences”, 3AW, September 1, 2015. http://www.3aw.com.au/news/calls-for-online-trolls-to-face-harsher-legal-consequences-20150901-gjcumv.html The vile Instagram post directed at indigenous Essendon footballer Courtenay Dempsey is sadly all too common, says the CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute. Police have offered support to Dempsey after the Bomber was allegedly racially…
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Report “Adam Goodes for the Flog of the Year” Page
The controversy around the persistent booing of Adam Goodes has dominated the AFL championship this year. Naturally, this is reflected on social media where we can see Facebook pages both supporting Adam Goodes and vilifying him. In this briefing, we examine some of the arguments used by supporters of anti-Adam Goodes pages to justify their…
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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…
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“BlackFulla RevoltingLution”: Anti-Aboriginal Hate reappears on Facebook
UPDATE: In under 24 hours from the start of our campaign, this hate page has now been closed. Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign and shared this page. Over 1,200 people shared this page and reported the hate, and together we made a difference. Together we can keep making a difference. The original…
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Anti-online hate speech campaigners launch new reporting tool
Report in the National Indigenous Radio Service on December 9, 2014. Report by Warren Barnsley. http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Anti-online-hate-speech-campaigners-launch-new-reporting-tool A new tool to report and monitor hateful speech on social media will be made available for public use today. The ‘Fight against Hate’ initiative has been developed by the Online Hate Prevention Institute and will aim to determine…