Improved data management, monitoring and analysis could be critical to combatting racism – here’s a plan for how research and numbers can help us tackle one of Australia’s biggest social issues.
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Awais Piracha asks, as Asian communities grow in our urban areas, what are the implications for race relations?
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In this Reconciliation Week, non-Indigenous ally Alanna Kamp provides some insights on how to 'Indigenise' curriculum. Alanna says ‘I'm on a lifelong journey of learning and action so the reflections and tips I provide in the blog post are by no means prescriptive. Rather, I hope they inspire you to take action in informed, respectful, and meaningful ways.’
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Professor Fethi Mansouri argues for a national vision to fix racism in Australia. A national approach starts by acknowledging that racism exists, naming it and calling it out, but must go further and look long term and systematically.
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The American sociologist W.E.B Du Bois wrote “the problem of the twentieth century [was] the problem of the color line” referring to the racial inequity and relations among people of different ethno-national backgrounds (Du Bois, 2008, p. 15). After more than a century of global wars, revolutions, and national social movements, the colour line remains visible in many parts of the world through perpetual ethnic and racial inequities, systemic racism, and racial hatred.
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