Racism
‘Zero tolerance of racism’: Netball WA on vile letter sent to player
A letter sent to WA netballer and Noongar woman Donnell Wallam included a bizarre acknowledgment of country paying respect to “British and European elders”.
- by Claire Ottaviano
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Opinion
Peter Dutton
Batter to boat-rocker … and neither Khawaja nor Dutton will back down
As a breed, Australian cricketers are generally on the conservative side of things, but the softly spoken opener has shattered the convention.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Opinion
Opinion
I was heading off to study abroad, but now my phone is alive with alerts
I can’t help but envy the Anglo-Saxon students in my cohort going on exchange. For them, travel warnings take the form of earthquakes or avalanches.
- by Satara Uthayakumaran
Texas woman accused of trying to drown three-year-old Palestinian-American girl
Human rights advocates have reported a rise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian bias and antisemitism in the US since the latest eruption of conflict in the Middle East.
- by Kanishka Singh
‘One of the greatest persons I’ve ever met’: Five decades on, Smith salutes Norman in Paris
Former 200m Olympic champion Tommie Smith has paid tribute to Australia’s Peter Norman, almost 60 years after their iconic Mexico City podium protest.
- by Jerome Pugmire
Opinion
Opinion
A play called Julia made me furious – about the national debates we keep stifling
We need to talk about misogyny, racism and much more. It doesn’t help when even the ABC is intimidated.
- by Sean Kelly
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Gaza Strip
‘It won’t silence us’: Islamophobic graffiti sprayed in woman’s driveway referred to police
The driveway of a home in Melbourne’s north-east was sprayed with anti-Muslim and anti-Palestine messages.
- by David Estcourt and Alex Crowe
Opinion
Peter Dutton
No, Australia is not ‘a racist country’. Laura Tingle is wrong
I have schoolyard memories of being called a golliwog, sausage lips and a wog. But I’m glad I was born here and those incidents don’t mean this country is inherently racist.
- by Gary Newman
‘Represent hatred, abject racism’: Magistrate blasts men over soccer match Nazi salutes
The magistrate said Nazi symbols would not be tolerated after convicting three men for making a Hitler salute during the 2022 Australia Cup final.
- by Miklos Bolza
Opinion
ABC
So Laura Tingle has been outed as ‘partisan’? What nonsense
The ABC does not have the luxury of defiantly ignoring accusations of bias, but this News Corp initiated pile-on is absurd.
- by Alan Sunderland
Letters
Letters
They gain from the demise of cash and yet we pay
Readers react to the push to keep cash alive, the “drift” towards the teals, and the good bloke defence.
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