The long-awaited reforms will make serious vilification – such as incitement of hatred or physical threats – punishable by up to five years’ jail.
In the US,university students and staff are facing deportation for speaking out against the state of Israel. In Australia,this heated topic is ramping up too.
Pianist Jayson Gillham has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s former managing director,but his case against the MSO and others continues.
When abuse against women and girls occurs because they are women and girls,Australia takes it seriously. How,then,to understand these reports?
Hate mail,physical assaults,women having their hijabs pulled off and being spat on,and graffiti about killing Muslims are among the surge in Islamophobic incidents.
Muslim Australia has a deeply entrenched conviction that the country simply doesn’t care about anything that happens to them.
One of two Muslim women attacked separately at a shopping centre in Melbourne’s north was “absolutely floored” by the assault,her case manager says.
Threats and attacks against LGBTQI+ organisations,including a neo-Nazi rally outside a queer film festival,have elevated leaders’ fears of violence.
The state’s top private school told parents it will review its curriculum programs to ensure it’s emphasising “the importance of tolerance and understanding”.
An international director of rugby has been dismissed after saying lesbianism had caused a rift in the country’s women’s team.