Greens Deputy Leader and Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called on the Labor Government to restore \u201cHarmony Day\u201d, held annually on March 21, to its original name, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, with the purpose of acknowledging and eliminating racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMarch 21 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. \u2018Harmony Day\u2019 is a John Howard invention. It whitewashes historic and ongoing racism in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHarmony Day\u201d is a superficial celebration of diversity which ignores the entire point of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – the urgent need to recognise and eliminate racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are far from eliminating racism in Australia. Too many people in Australia feel the sear of racism everyday whether it\u2019s in workplaces, schools, sports, media, public places or parliaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRestoring March 21 to its original name and purpose is an important step in moving towards becoming an anti-racist country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greens Deputy Leader and Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called on the Labor Government to restore \u201cHarmony Day\u201d, held annually on March 21, to its original name, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, with the purpose of acknowledging and eliminating racism. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cMarch 21 is the International Day for … Continue reading “AUSTRALIA SHOULD RESTORE THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION”<\/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-20674","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\/20674","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=20674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20675,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions\/20675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}