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The Future is non-Indigenous
This year I applied for a Future Fellowship through the Australian Research Council. The success rate is low, only a hundred are appointed nationwide…
The Touch and Feel of Australian Islamophobia. Notes on Randa Abdel-Fattah’s ‘Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia’
The journey of the book is one of understanding how people are literally affected not simply in an abstract cognitive sense – where bias…
The Violence of the Neutral State: The Institutionalisation of Racism in Juvenile Justice
In November 2017, the Youth Justice Coalition[1] (YJC) in NSW, a group of youth advocates, academics and children’s lawyers, released a report detailing the…
Love in the Time of Terror: Slam at Sydney Film Festival
Slam is a devastating film. Devastatingly good, devastatingly sad, and devastatingly accurate in its portrayal of racism in Australia. The camera turns its gaze…