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Mar 13, 13 • Uncategorised • 1 Comment »
So recently I exchanged life in a big city for life in a regional centre. From multicultural, diverse Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast, which is about as white and European as one would expect outside the capital cities. How white is...
Mar 4, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics, Uncategorised • 3 Comments »
I had the opportunity to speak at the first ever multicultural media forum at NSW Parliament last week. The Multicultural Media At A Crossroads conference was jointly organised by the Multicultural Media Awards, the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social...
Dec 11, 12 • Featured, Uncategorised • 5 Comments »
It’s highly likely that by now you would have seen the video that went viral of several individuals racially abusing and threatening a French woman and others on a Melbourne bus. One of the main protagonists made these threats while pushing a pram...
Oct 23, 12 • Arts, Uncategorised • No Comments »
Filmmakers Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody have a busy few months ahead of them. Their first feature film together Hail, directed by Amiel and produced by Michael, has just started its run of single cinema releases into most Australian capital...
Oct 11, 12 • Arts, Uncategorised • 3 Comments »
A minor stir was caused in the Aussie hip-hop community recently. Thomas Rock, member of Sydney veteran group Def Wish Cast, raised the spectre of racism infiltrating the local hip-hop scene during his interview on Triple J’s hip-hop show....
May 20, 12 • Uncategorised • No Comments »
It’s an interesting quirk of Australia’s personality: we are a nation of immigrants, yet each wave wants to be the last ones in. After leaving Britain for this wide brown land that held so much promise, our early settlers and their descendants...
Jan 24, 12 • Uncategorised • 2 Comments »
I’m one of those people who in ethnic terms doesn’t quite look like one thing or the other. It doesn’t bother me, of course, but this ambiguity sometimes inspires odd reactions and questions from others. For the record, my Dad is white...
