The Australian Human Rights Commission has called for the establishment of a National Anti-Racism Taskforce as a key recommendation of a comprehensive plan aimed at tackling structural and systemic racism in Australia. This plan includes the first national framework against racism in institutions across society.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has called on the Federal Government to set up a National Anti-Racism Taskforce . It's one of the key recommendations of a comprehensive plan .. commissioned by the Morrison Government and formally launched today, which sets out a plan to tackle structural and systemic racism .
"People think, 'if I don't see someone being racist to someone else or if I'm not directly racist to someone else', then racism isn't happening. But just because you don't see interpersonal racism, doesn't mean that we don't have systemic and institutional racism. and there was so many examples of that.
The framework calls on the Federal Government to set up a National Anti-Racism Taskforce, which will sit separately to newly created antisemitism and Islamophobia envoys, and develop a plan specific to First Nations people. The framework recommends truth-telling as the first step to addressing systemic racism affecting first nations people - particularly those communities that feel disillusioned and unheard after the Voice referendum.
Ms Tuala also said the collection of data will be an important step toward formally recording experiences of racism, in a consistent way, so as to understand how to combat it.
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