Posts Tagged ‘racism’
Mar 23, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics • 1 Comment »
I support myself as a professional artist and I recently left my gallery representation in Melbourne when I realised they had begun representing a white artist whose work has appropriated Indigenous Australian art. I’m not going to discuss that...
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 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...
Mar 27, 12 • Culture • 3 Comments »
Once in a while in the media or in conversation, you’ll hear someone ask this question: Is Australia a racist country? Dr Charlie Teo made news earlier this year in his Australia Day speech, declaring that racism was still very much alive,...
