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The Age
April 28, 2018
That is a shame, because over many decades immigration has been central to building a globally saluted culture – a society and economy enriched by ethnic diversity. Australia is such a coveted place because of that wonderful mix, not despite it. Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane,ÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
April 27, 2018
THE federal government has begun the search for a new Race Discrimination Commissioner who has an “understanding of middle Australian values” to ... Act”, “understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups” and “the benefits of cultural and linguistic diversity for all Australians”.
The Guardian
April 27, 2018
As the historian Charles Ferrall says, “no other social or ethnic group has been the object of such prolonged and intense vilification [in Australia] as the ... It's even more baffling when that book contains passages that move back and forth from descriptions of ethnicity to descriptions of political loyalty.
SBS
April 27, 2018
The 25-year-old Chinese-Australian has a well-paid job as an accountant in Melbourne. Three years ago, she applied for a parent visa for her mother to join her in Australia – and then, when she was promoted last year, she added her father to the application. But earlier this month, the Turnbull governmentÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
April 20, 2018
Census figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed the largest ethnic cluster is Indian-born residents in Parramatta, where 36,599 people from the subcontinent live. SIGN UP FOR THE ... Many were also arriving in Australia at different stages in their lives, which dictated their preferences. HousingÃÂ ...
TODAYonline
April 15, 2018
The Australian government, in particular, looks much as it did in the 1960s, before the end of the White Australia policy, which restricted nonwhite ... “The default for many Australians is still colourblindness,” he said, “an insistence that we don't see ethnic or racial difference and moreover we should not pointÃÂ ...
FourFourTwo Australia
April 12, 2018
Hill still doesn't back away from his decision to axe the ethnic clubs in the mid 1990's from the NSL when under his reign Soccer Australia attempted to broaden football's supporter base. “Australian fans just felt like they didn't belong,” he said. “The great thing about Australian sport and supporters ofÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 10, 2018
The Australian government, in particular, looks much as it did in the 1960s, before the end of the White Australia policy, which restricted nonwhite .... should not point out ethnic or racial difference — and that stifles examination and prevents Australians from taking more muscular action on multiculturalism.”.
The Guardian
April 4, 2018
But the evidence emerging suggests that the principle that has guided Australia's modern migration – that it be avowedly blind to race, ethnicity and religion – appears to be eroding, particularly in the application of the humanitarian ... The Rohingyan ethnic minority in Myanmar are largely farmers too.
The Straits Times
March 6, 2018
TRANGIE, AUSTRALIA (AFP) - In a sweltering shed on an Australian farm near the rural town of Trangie, Emma Billet drags a nervous sheep from a waiting pen to her shearing station. She is the ... "The advent of social media has also helped to celebrate the gender and ethnic diversity in shearing sheds.".
The New Arab
March 6, 2018
When I was a child, it grew increasingly common to see ethnic minorities parodied in Australia, often by the people from within that minority themselves. Nick Giannopoulos, a Greek-Australian, decided to reclaim the racist term "wog", used in Australia to describe people of ethnic minorities, generally fromÃÂ ...
HuffPost
March 6, 2018
Compulsory voting and enrollment have been credited with giving Australia relatively stable, moderate leaders for most of its history, according to Stewart Jackson, a lecturer in the department of government and international relations at the University of Sydney. He said that aspiring Australian politiciansÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 6, 2018
Sri Lanka imposed a nationwide state of emergency after mobs of Sinhalese, the majority ethnic group, attacked dozens of Muslim businesses and houses, and at least one mosque. [The New York Times]. • Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty that establishes the first-ever maritime border between theÃÂ ...
The Australian
March 6, 2018
"The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Myanmar continues. I don't think we can draw any other conclusion from what I have seen and heard in Cox's Bazar," UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour said after a four-day visit to refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.
SBS
March 6, 2018
An excerpt of the speech was published in advance in The Australian newspaper. Mr Tudge said the government wanted migrants to “integrate” but not to “assimilate” and lose their home culture. He also warned against allowing a 'separatist' version of multiculturalism, where people come with “little desireÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 5, 2018
Myanmar's armed forces have faced international condemnation and accusations of ethnic cleansing in recent months for perpetrating a fresh wave of ... debate, with just under a fortnight to go until polling day in the South Australian election, writes Guardian Australia political editor Katharine Murphy.
The Guardian
March 5, 2018
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's leader, is due to visit Sydney this month for the Asean-Australia special summit. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Thursday the Myanmar government's treatment of the Rohingya people is expected to be discussed. Australian allies including the US, UK,ÃÂ ...
The Australian
February 21, 2018
As an activist in the Chinese community since 1984, my conclusion is that the commodification of the ethnic vote is the real culprit. ... It is, perhaps, better to speak of multi-ethnicities, instead of cultures, as we have one Australian culture, and all imported creeds need to cleanly align with the mainstream;ÃÂ ...
FoodNavigator-Asia.com
February 11, 2018
Being an Australian study, it also showed that parent ethnicity and the timing of migration to Australia from Asia were associated with food allergy in adolescents. “This has previously been reported in both infants and five- to six-year-old children from the same region, and the persistence of this associationÃÂ ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
December 31, 1999
“The panic about African youth crime has undoubtedly done significant damage to racial harmony in Melbourne and Australian society more generally,” he said. “There is never anything to be gained from focusing excessively on ethnicity and race around discussions around crime - there is very little to beÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 28, 2018
'I have a post-9/11 mentality': creating art while Muslim in Australia ... Sabsabi's works are showing at Adelaide's ACE Open gallery along with 10 other Muslim artists, part of the Australian Muslim artist collective Eleven, that the ... Diversity of age, gender, ethnicity and different strands of faith have been key.
The Australian
February 28, 2018
Most Australians, if they think of Southeast Asia at all, recognise that it is of central importance to our security. There was a time when our defence white papers would routinely observe that, simply because of geography, any threat to Australia would come through or from the Southeast Asian archipelago.
VnExpress International
February 28, 2018
Cambodia offers ethnic Vietnamese short-term residency in migrant crackdown reprieve ... Lyma Nguyen, an Australian human rights lawyer, told the Phnom Penh Post that documents held by ethnic Vietnamese which were dismissed as irregular should have been accepted as legal, and they should haveÃÂ ...
SBS
February 28, 2018
The numbers have prompted some to question whether universities and health services are doing enough to educate international students about the pitfalls of close encounters outside the lecture theatre. “They could be doing a lot more,” said Alison Coelho from the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health,ÃÂ ...
Armenpress.am
February 27, 2018
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. Gladys Berejiklian, the ethnic Armenian Premier of New South Wales, Australia, has received a special welcoming in the United States not only from President Donald Trump, but also the local Armenian community, the Voice of America reports. BerejiklianÃÂ ...
AgWeb
February 26, 2018
(Bloomberg) -- Growing demand for goat meat in the U.S. from ethnic minority groups and foodies has made an unlikely export superstar for Australian farmers, with exports surging to a record. The value of goat meat shipments from Australia, the world's biggest exporter, jumped 38 percent to A$277 millionÃÂ ...
Khmer Times
February 25, 2018
An Australian MP has eloquently compared the dissolution of CNRP in Cambodia to the dissolution of Green Party or Labor Party in Australia, ... Living in a democratic society that is internationally recognised for its deep-rooted respect and tolerance of ethnic diversity, Australian MPs should know who theyÃÂ ...
The Australian
February 21, 2018
As an activist in the Chinese community since 1984, my conclusion is that the commodification of the ethnic vote is the real culprit. ... It is, perhaps, better to speak of multi-ethnicities, instead of cultures, as we have one Australian culture, and all imported creeds need to cleanly align with the mainstream;ÃÂ ...
FoodNavigator-Asia.com
February 11, 2018
Being an Australian study, it also showed that parent ethnicity and the timing of migration to Australia from Asia were associated with food allergy in adolescents. “This has previously been reported in both infants and five- to six-year-old children from the same region, and the persistence of this associationÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 6, 2018
Beijing's reach into Australia goes far beyond groups like the student association. Its interference in Australian society is becoming increasingly bolder. And as Australians debate how to respond, the voices of the Chinese-Australians alarmed by Beijing's encroachment are being drowned out by anÃÂ ...
SBS
January 15, 2018
'My Australia' is a special SBS News series exploring cultural heritage and identity, and asking what it means to be Australian in 2018. ... “When you add the intersection of ethnic or cultural diversity into someone's gender, it makes it twice as hard because the expectation is even stronger that she shouldn't have these roles.
Brisbane Times
January 15, 2018
You are then left with representing a certain type of Australia – maybe that Australia is your world in Surry Hills or Bondi, but it is not the Australia that the majority of us live in. As a country, we seem to only recognise the advantages of multiculturalism in the variety of delicious ethnic food, cherry-pickedÃÂ ...
Indian NewsLink
January 13, 2018
The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) has said that it would welcome any recommendations of a Federal Parliamentary inquiry into migrant ... FECCA is the national peak body representing Australians from CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) backgrounds. FECCA'sÃÂ ...
ESPN
January 13, 2018
As a dark-skinned Australian who began his cricket career in Australia, I cannot claim any discrimination or disadvantage based on my ethnic background. Any bias that I ve experienced has been down to the fact that I ve been limited by this ridiculous obsession with picking the best players! I suffered fromÃÂ ...
The Australian
January 7, 2018
But Labor has played politics with ethnicity for decades. ... The industry is funded by the taxpaying public but breeds hostility towards Australians. ... Labor rejected this, justifying the dissent by appeal to the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia, which objects to “any attempts to applyÃÂ ...
The Australian
December 27, 2017
Victoria Police's Superintendent Therese Fitzgerald said “youth crime in general”, rather than gangs associated with an ethnic group, was to blame. ... Mr Glare last week told The Australian a water cannon might be necessary to deal with larger brawls like the ones seen at St Kilda beach on December 15ÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 19, 2017
“There is this fear that we may work closely with somebody who is accused of being an agent of another government,” said Mr. Chung, 49, a fourth-generation Chinese-Australian. “We're in a position now where people are running scared.” Australia has been thrown into turmoil over allegations that ChinaÃÂ ...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
Australia's young African population is pushing back at what they see as a racially sensationalized portrayal of their place in Australian society by ... “There are young people involved in crime from many backgrounds including Anglo Australians, however when they commit crime ethnicity is not an issue” heÃÂ ...
POPSUGAR Australia
December 31, 1999
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about my ethnic background, it's probably safe to say that I'd be living in a far bigger New York City apartment right now. But while everything about the answer to that question seems pretty straightforward on paper — I was adopted from China at 7 monthsÃÂ ...
SBS
December 10, 2017
Any patient at an Australian clinic is able to access its sperm bank, regardless of where they live or their relationship status. Chen was able to choose the biological father of her baby after considering questionnaires filled out by donors, which include information about their ethnicity, physical characteristics,ÃÂ ...
ArtsHub
December 10, 2017
A recent program for ethnic minority and disabled artists offered a standard bursary to attend programming at a major arts festival so participants like me could learn about taking work there in the future. The program connected me and my colleagues to festival programmers and artists who had presentedÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
December 9, 2017
SYDNEY • The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has identified about 10 political candidates at state and local government elections ... by China to interfere in Australian politics and universities, particularly in western Sydney, where parties vie for the support of ethnic constituencies.
The Australian
December 9, 2017
In its annual report this year, ASIO said it had “identified foreign powers clandestinely seeking to shape the opinions of members of the Australian public, media organisations and government officials in order to advance their country's own political objectives. “Ethnic and religious communities in AustraliaÃÂ ...
The Australian
December 7, 2017
As a white, gay, ethnic Jew with a black husband he could have been a supremo of the intersectionality outrage industry. ... “His desperate attempts to seek attention through vile and hateful rhetoric has (sic) no place in the Australian Parliament,” tweeted Greens Leader Richard Di Natale, who successfullyÃÂ ...
Mondaq News Alerts
December 2, 2017
With the introduction of the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fast approaching, many Australian businesses will be required ... Special protections also apply to 'special categories' of information, which includes personal data relating to matters such as racial or ethnic origin, ...
ABC Online
December 1, 2017
But there is an apartheid regime operating right now on our doorstep — in Myanmar against the Rohingya — which Australia has said and done very little about. Last week, United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, as Amnesty International has been saying, that Myanmar is guilty of "ethnic ...
The Australian
December 1, 2017
It was a strategy that still adhered to the White Australia policy, but it did transform Australia's ethnic and religious mix. Calwell, however, needed to persuade the general population to accept such a large influx. He decided to sell the policy to make Australians understand why it was necessary. But that was ...
Honi Soit
November 30, 2017
In the mosaic of modern multicultural Australia, it is unsurprising that Pauline Hanson's trademark post-fact xenophobia and fearful cultural insensitivity towards migrant communities render her an outlier from politics and reality itself. In her oft-reproduced 1996 maiden Parliamentary speech, Hanson, ...
The Australian
November 23, 2017
“So far we have left this to the international aid organisations (but) the challenges arising from this are of direct relevance to Australia,” Dr Blaxland said, noting the possibility of a fresh wave of asylum-seekers emerging from Bangladesh refugee camps and even fresh recruits to jihadist extremism. “Australia ...
The Guardian
November 23, 2017
Australia's race discrimination commissioner has rejected the ... arguing that the real driver of the no vote was religious belief, not ethnicity. ... are defying the Papua New Guinean and Australian governments in ... and the “faultless” performances of three young Australians who play kids left home alone.
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