The report examining options to recognise indigenous people in the constitution lays out an important project of modernisation, says professor Jon Altman of ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.
Racial discrimination
Bolt decision: guilty of discrimination, judge declares
Federal Court judge Mordy Bromberg has found right-wing scribe Andrew Bolt and his publisher Herald & Weekly Times guilty of a serious breach of the Racial Discrimination Act in Melbourne this morning.
First shots: Bolt attacks ‘Left-wing judges’ as News rallies troops
Andrew Bolt has fired a warning shot ahead of the looming judgment in his racial discrimination case, using his regular column in this morning’s Herald Sun to launch an attack against “left-wing” judges.
Andrew Bolt on trial: final plea to ban ‘unlawful’ Hun stories
The two senior silks representing nine prominent members of the Aboriginal community in the Andrew Bolt race case have concluded their submissions with a passionate plea for Judge Mordy Bromberg to ban the Herald Sun from publishing “unlawful” stories in the future.
Andrew Bolt on trial: questions of Aboriginal identity, writing intent
Former Federal Court Judge Ron Merkel has raised the spectre of thousands of vulnerable young Aborigines suffering for years at the hands of Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt as the conservative scribe’s race case continued this morning
Bolt on trial: ‘I cast no aspersions over their Aboriginality’
Andrew Bolt’s defence QC has mounted a torturous argument to show his high-profile client failed to fall foul of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Federal Court this morning.
Bolt on trial: judge questions key claims
Federal Court judge Mordy Bromberg has questioned key elements of Andrew Bolt’s defence in a racial discrimination case brought by nine prominent members of the Aboriginal community this morning.
Andrew Bolt attacks ‘false, offensive’ claims
Australia’s most popular opinion writer has branded the equation of his views on Aboriginality with Nazi eugenics as “false and grossly offensive” in the Federal Court today.
CERD committee serves; ball in Oz court
The UN committee on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (the committee) has given Australia another serve in its latest report, writes Robyn Seth-Purdie, a public policy and governance consultant.
UN set to give Oz a serve on our racial discrimination record
The UN Committee that monitors breaches of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) will report on its examination of Australia this weekend.
Racial equality impossible under the constitution
One hundred and forty years after the firstAboriginal Protection Act, Indigenous peoples in Australia are still being subjected to regimes of surveillance, control and discrimination, says Dr Aron Paul.
Why would Canada grant refugee status to a white South African?
By granting a white South African refugee status, Canada fails to acknowledge that racial discrimination is outlawed in the South African constitution and that crime affects all colours.
Affirmative action: good if you’re white and female
Judging on US unemployment figures, white women are the real winners when it comes to the controversial issue of affirmative action.
Beer summit: Harvard professor responds
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes of his experience at Obama’s beer summit. However, Ruth Wisse questions if Gates really was the victim of racial profiling.
Mick Dodson: abuse is no solution to abuse
None of us is in any doubt that we have to intervene to make children safe. We have a responsibility to do this, so does government. But we must draw the line on responses that involve racial discrimination.
Defence contractors and racial discrimination exemptions
In states and territories across Australia, the political and legislative consensus has always been that discriminating against people on the basis of race and/or nationality in the context of employment is illegal.
