{"id":14096,"date":"2021-11-30T21:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14096"},"modified":"2021-11-30T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:11:46","slug":"massive-rise-in-racism-concerns-must-impel-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/massive-rise-in-racism-concerns-must-impel-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive rise in racism concerns must impel action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the findings of the latest Mapping Social Cohesion report, which highlight a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/30\/almost-unprecedented-spike-in-number-of-australians-who-see-racism-as-a-problem-survey-suggests\">substantial increase in Australians\u2019 concerns about racism<\/a>, should drive government action. 60% of people now say racism is a big problem, up from 40% just last year.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cPeople are more and more worried about rising racism in the community.<br \/>\n\u201cIncreasing community awareness has aligned with the continued growth of far-right, racist movements. The impacts of racist hatred on minority communities can no longer be denied.<br \/>\n\u201cMeanwhile, the Morrison government\u2019s head is firmly planted in the sand. The government hasn\u2019t funded a national anti-racism strategy since 2015.<br \/>\n\u201cJust because a conservative government full of white men doesn\u2019t feel the brunt of racism doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t exist.<br \/>\n\u201cASIO is now saying up to 50 per cent of its domestic counter-terrorism caseload is taken up by ideologically-motivated extremism, which has been driven by a rise in right-wing extremism.<br \/>\n\u201cWe urgently need federal government investment in a national anti-racism strategy and a coordinated plan to tackle the far-right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the findings of the latest Mapping Social Cohesion report, which highlight a\u00a0substantial increase in Australians\u2019 concerns about racism, should drive government action. 60% of people now say racism is a big problem, up from 40% just last year. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cPeople are more and more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/massive-rise-in-racism-concerns-must-impel-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massive rise in racism concerns must impel action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}