Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be strange or foreign. This curation collection also includes all the 'isms' in the world; racism, sexism, etc. Including homophobia. When are people going to realise that this behaviour is not right. Please stop it now and be inclusive in your world views. Reduce the hate in the world and stop all forms of violence against people.
The Minister responsible for Multicultural Affairs Zed Seselja says he cannot understand why New Zealand migrants feel resentful towards their adopted country, and report higher levels of discrimination than other groups.
A generation on from revelations about the lack of diversity in the Australian media at the dawn of the digital era, what is pushing this concern now? And what’s changed since then?
Port Adelaide says the fan who's been suspended after a banana-throwing incident on Sunday has accepted the AFL club's offer of cultural awareness training.
The resurgence of xenophobia in Australia troubles Clarke. She sees an “awful synchronicity” between past and present. Her parents left England in the 70s, soon after Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech, which decried black immigrants and predicted that foreign children would overcrowd hospitals and schools. Two decades later, Clarke watched Pauline Hanson’s entrée into politics with a shockingly similar maiden speech, accompanied by a shift in public sentiment around race and immigration. Unsurprisingly, she is not optimistic about Hanson’s return, the rise of One Nation and Islamophobic rhetoric.
“I feel as if there is really a global post-colonial situation at the moment,” which especially victimises children, Clarke says. “There are children’s bodies being brutalised or being washed up on beaches. We see brown children being locked up on Nauru and in Villawood Detention Centre. We see things like Don Dale and Indigenous communities having their funding cut.”
“The most important people in my life have always been women.” So writes Barack Obama, in an essay published in a young women’s magazine, in which he urges men not just to fight blatant sexism, but also to work to change people’s everyday attitudes.
It’s odd that so many people still think that lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality has been won. Homophobic hate crimes are on the rise, trans people still face legal barriers that prevent them from being able to fully be themselves and more than 75,000 young people experienced bullying last year for “being gay”.
Sport can be a driver for change; it can make a difference in people’s lives and unify communities, particularly around national successes. But it can also create tensions and cause conflict.
The Olympic ideal is about a competition of equals, but no one told the media at the Rio Games, for whom gender makes some athletes more equal than others.
The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory made history 50 years ago by standing up for their rights to land and better pay. But a new book reveals the deeper story behind the Wave Hill Walk-Off, including massacres and other abuses by early colonists.
People outraged at the shooting dead of an iman and his assistant are blaming anti-Muslim hatred spurred on by Donald Trump. The men were shot in the back of the head as they walked home from Saturday afternoon prayers in Islamic dress, according to police. No motive for the killings has yet been established by investigators, but worshippers and community members in Queens said the killings were hate crimes.
A far-right nationalist group that links itself with Pauline Hanson stormed a church service on Sunday dressed in mock Muslim attire and chanting anti-Islami
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