“Australia’s colonial and racist underpinnings are revealed in the penetrating and stylish crime docu The Tall Man. Helmer Tony Krawitz creates a vivid portrait of an Australian island enraged by the death of an Aboriginal man while in custody of the local, predominantly white-run police force.” Variety magazine
The annual Mapping Social Cohesion report was released today.
The research shows a very slight drop in the number of people who say they have been a victim of racial abuse in the past 12 months, remaining at around 14% (that’s 1 in 7 people).
It also shows that 44% of people think the level of racial prejudice in Australia is higher now than it was five years ago. All the more reason why All Together Now’s work is needed!
Earlier this week we gave a presentation at The Body Shop’s annual retail managers’ conference in Melbourne. There was so much enthusiasm and energy for All Together Now’s work, and indeed for all their charity partners.
We made this 40-second film for the managers to summarise our Give Racism The Finger work together earlier this year:
A summary of our Give Racism The Finger campaign with The Body Shop, May-June 2011.
Our Managing Director, Priscilla, wrote a guest blog post for the Centre for Social Impact about All Together Now’s partnership with The Body Shop.
The Body Shop, with its national reach of 83 retail stores, provided an amazing opportunity to ignite conversations about racism between store staff and customers. The intention of these conversations was to provide people with a better understanding of racism and feel confident about speaking up when they witness it.
Do you know someone who supports cultural diversity in the local community? Nominate them to be a People of Australia Ambassador:
As part of Australia’s new multicultural policy, the Prime Minister has announced the Australian Multicultural Council will appoint 40 People of Australia Ambassadors.
Ambassadors will champion inclusion and provide ‘grass roots’ input to the Australian Multicultural Council and to Government.
Like all not-for-profit organisations, we’re occasionally asked about how we put our mission into practice. Our mission states that:
We aim to eliminate racist behaviour in Australia through innovative, evidence-based and effective social marketing.
Specifically, people want to know about “social marketing”. We define social marketing as the application of commercial marketing principles, tools and technologies to achieve benefits for society.
“Racism online means that racism in classrooms, workplaces and communities moves from onto our screens into our pockets and handbags.”
— Outgoing Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, addressing the National Press Club yesterday. He said the number of complaints made to the Australian Human Rights Commission about online racism has doubled in the last couple of years.
Thanks to Jennifer Kulas for taking this pic 🙂
A hot topic on our Facebook page over the past week has been “If we are not born racist how do Australians become racist?”. Some of the answers from our Facebook friends include:
* ignorance
* social conditioning
* fear of the unknown
* learning racism from older family members and others in the community
* the media
* Australian history
* politicians
* lack of leadership
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