The state's civil and administrative tribunal has found that a pro-brumby group racially vilified the former chief executive of an Aboriginal corporation through social media posts and posters.
Monica Morgan argued that a pro-brumby group had racially vilified her in social media posts and public posters.The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found that a pro-brumby group racially vilified the former chief executive of an Aboriginal corporation through social media posts and posters.
It is the first time that a First Nations person in Victoria has been found to be racially vilified under the state's Racial and Religious Tolerance Act. "She'd been subjected to years of bullying and intimidation from the feral horse preservation group over the Yorta Yorta nation's support of government policy to remove feral horses from Barmah National Park," Ms Trescowthick said.
People are being subjected to vicious online abuse, vandalism and even death threats as brumby activists resist any moves to remove horses from Australia's high country. Ms Morgan said she had brought forward the matter because the Barmah Brumby Preservation Group had significantly targeted her.Monica Morgan is the former chief executive of the Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation."If VCAT has found for the first time within that tribunal that racial vilification happened, then this is not just a slight matter," she said.
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