{"id":29650,"date":"2024-10-17T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29650"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:04:34","slug":"greens-calls-on-labor-to-fully-fund-the-implementation-of-a-national-anti-racism-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/greens-calls-on-labor-to-fully-fund-the-implementation-of-a-national-anti-racism-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens calls on Labor to fully fund the implementation of a national anti-racism strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for Anti-Racism, calls on the Albanese Labor Government to fully fund the implementation of a national anti-racism strategy, following the release of the latest report on anti-racism commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Commission &#8211;&nbsp;<em>An Anti-Racism Framework: Experiences and Perspectives of Multicultural Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report can be found&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/humanrights.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-10\/An%20Anti-Racism%20Framework%20Community%20Consultations%20Report.pdf\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s another report that shows what many of us already know, and what the Labor government refuses to acknowledge &#8211; that racism is entrenched in Australia, and that it is rooted in settler colonialism and whiteness as an ideology and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRacism is rife across society &#8211; in government, in the media, in interactions with the police, in workplaces, in playgrounds. For how long will First Nations people and people of colour in this country be subjected to racism before it is acknowledged and systemically tackled by the government?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of using \u2018social cohesion\u2019 as a distraction and a way of cracking down on legitimate protests against Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, Labor must fully fund the AHRC to urgently implement a national anti-racism strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Labor government can start today by mandating anti-racism training for all parliamentarians, to challenge white privilege which is at the core of racism in this country.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for Anti-Racism, calls on the Albanese Labor Government to fully fund the implementation of a national anti-racism strategy, following the release of the latest report on anti-racism commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Commission &#8211;&nbsp;An Anti-Racism Framework: Experiences and Perspectives of Multicultural Australia. The report can be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/greens-calls-on-labor-to-fully-fund-the-implementation-of-a-national-anti-racism-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens calls on Labor to fully fund the implementation of a national anti-racism strategy&#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-29650","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\/29650","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=29650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29651,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions\/29651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}