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References to Aborigines throughout including a chapter on racist violence against Aborigines; evidence of attacks in social, cultural settings, criminal justice system by racist organisations, police; effects on victims; role of the media; institutional racism; conclusions, findings, recommendations; legislative reform.
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This book offers the first collection of essays dedicated to the issue of hate crimes in Australia. Contributions address crimes against Aborigines, members of Australia's Arabic communities, Jews and lesbians and gay men. Through a systemic approach to explaining social and political marginalisation, they also look at histories of racism and neo-Nazi organisations in Australia, and the widening base of support and legitimation for hate crimes in the 'symbolic violence' of popular contemporary discourse about minorities and an imagined homogeneous community of white, Christian and heterosexual Australians.
Article prepared by the National Committee on Violence and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission National Inquiry into Racist Violence; racist violence is different from other violence due to the motivation behind the behaviour; terms of reference and the reasons for establishing the inquiry are discussed along with type of information collected; size of problems reveals many victims do not report attacks and there is a lack of official statistics; impact on victims and strategies to avoid attacks are looked at; examples given of attacks including a submission from an Aboriginal woman, an overseas student perspective and a community organisation perspective (Community Alert Against Racism and Violence)
Findings and recommendations of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into Racist Violence, 1991; liaison with Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to avoid overlap of enquiry; Aboriginal-Police relations; full report annotated separately.