Tag: racism
The long and complicated history of Aboriginal involvement in football
The Lake Tyers football team in the late 1930s.
The club was incredibly successful, winning the East Gippsland League in 1934,
1938 and...
New research shows how Australia’s newsrooms are failing minority communities
The Deakin study found that too few of the stories about
minority communities incorporated a viewpoint from that community. Shutterstock
Australians from culturally diverse backgrounds...
Australian media are playing a dangerous game using racism as currency
Drawing by Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
It has been quite a week for race-laden discourse in the Australian media.
There was Blair Cottrell, a notorious...
Tony Albert’s politically charged kitsch collection confronts our racist past
Tony Albert Girramay/Yidinji/Kuku Yalanji peoples.
Australia Qld/NSW b.1981. Mid Century Modern (series) 2016.
Pigment prints | 24 works: 100 x 100cm (each) Collection:
The...
Indigenous voices are speaking loudly on social media but racism endures
Drawing by Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Social media are a vital resource for Indigenous Australians, connecting them to community and culture, helping identify those at...
The Man who United our Nation
The Lonely Hero Lionel Rose was unaware of the National Pride that he had evoked. When the plane landed back in Melbourne in 1968,...