{"id":6922,"date":"2020-06-12T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:50:17","slug":"its-time-for-real-action-against-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/its-time-for-real-action-against-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S TIME FOR REAL ACTION AGAINST RACISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor welcomes the community call for an anti-racism strategy.<br \/>\nToday, 30 major community organisations have called on the Prime Minister and the Labor Leader to establish a bipartisan National Anti-Racism Strategy.<br \/>\nThis call must be heeded as there is no place for racism in Australia.<br \/>\nRegrettably, there has been a rise in racism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nThe Human Rights Commission says close to a quarter of people who have lodged complaints about racial discrimination in the past two months have been targeted because of COVID-19.<br \/>\nJust as we are responding to COVID-19, we need a bipartisan approach to tackling racism in Australia through a national anti-racism strategy.<br \/>\nLabor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alp.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=942ebc4c1cf8fc522a4f4c50e&amp;id=ab895cc14b&amp;e=579c54a3a1\">has<\/a>, and will continue to, raise this issue in Parliament and will keep working with, and listening, to culturally and linguistically diverse communities.<br \/>\nWhile the vast majority of Australians abhor racism, we need to stand against the actions of an unrepresentative minority so that we can all get through this together.<br \/>\nLabor supports a national anti-racism strategy and is ready to work with the Government to see this progressed as a bipartisan, unifying initiative.<br \/>\nWe would welcome the Morrison Government adopting a bipartisan approach to combating racism in Australia through a national anti-racism strategy and any other appropriate measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor welcomes the community call for an anti-racism strategy. Today, 30 major community organisations have called on the Prime Minister and the Labor Leader to establish a bipartisan National Anti-Racism Strategy. This call must be heeded as there is no place for racism in Australia. Regrettably, there has been a rise in racism as a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/its-time-for-real-action-against-racism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IT\u2019S TIME FOR REAL ACTION AGAINST RACISM&#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-6922","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\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}