Woman filmed after allegedly attempting to snatch hijab from teen
By Ellen Fanning and Kenji Sato
Queensland Police launch an investigation after a woman allegedly attempted to snatch a hijab from a teenage girl on the Brisbane bayside.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-24/police-investigate-alleged-hijab-snatching-brisbane/106377108
Muslim Australians fear rising Islamophobia as Ramadan begins
By Ahmed Yussuf
Muslim Australians fear Islamophobia is rising following comments made by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and in the wake of recent threats against one of Australia's largest mosques.
#RaceRelations #Multiculturalism #PaulineHansonsOneNation #AhmedYussuf
Sabine Winton brands Nationals MP 'a***hole' after dim sum comment
By Keane Bourke and Courtney Withers
WA Labor MPs call on a Nationals member to apologise for what they say was a racist comment directed at of their colleagues.
#StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #RaceRelations #PoliticalParties #CommunityandSociety #KeaneBourke #CourtneyWithers
Jesse Jackson helped lay the groundwork for America's first Black president
By Mawunyo Gbogbo
Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday aged 84, leaves behind a towering legacy in politics and the fight for justice in the United States and abroad.
Australians want social cohesion, even if it feels far away this week
By David Speers
Most Australians want greater social cohesion here, even if they don't see much of it right now.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/social-cohesion-anthony-albanese-isaac-herzog/106294752
#FederalParliament #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #CommunityandSociety #Religion #UnrestConflictandWar #WorldPolitics #RaceRelations #Terrorism #ForeignAffairs #DavidSpeers
Trump posts video depicting Obamas as monkeys
The video also includes a number of debunked conspiracy theories linked to the 2020 US election which the US president believes was stolen from him.
Barbie wishes you a Happy and Well-Informed Black History Month. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #blackhistoryamericanhistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #barbie #barbies #fashiondolls #fashiondoll #History #historymatters #historyfacts #whitefragility #racerelations #equality #equalitymatters #reading #wellread
One Nation 'spot the Westerner' video condemned
By Clare Armstrong
A One Nation party official has filmed strangers on Melbourne's streets claiming the city "doesn't look like a Western nation at all".
#Immigration #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Multiculturalism #RaceRelations #PoliticalParties #ClareArmstrong
Found an interview with one of my favorite authors - African-American #scifi master Samuel R. Delany. #booskstodon #author #raceRelations
First Nations people say 'silence' on alleged Perth bomb attack weighs heavily
By Kirstie Wellauer
Underwhelming public responses in the wake of the alleged attack on an Invasion Day rally in Perth leave First Nations people across Australia feeling their "pain matters less".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/perth-bomb-attack-analysis-first-nations-people/106289032
#IndigenousAustralians #RaceRelations #Racism #KirstieWellauer
Outback Australian voices tell 'real story' of historic project's violent past
By Matthew Qvortrup
Aboriginal filmmaker Kieran Satour's documentary tells of murders and massacres by settlers and First Nations people during construction of the Overland Telegraph Line.
#IndigenousAustralians #Reconciliation #RaceRelations #MatthewQvortrup
Kanye West says he 'lost touch with reality' due to brain injury
By Rudi Maxwell
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to apologise for past behaviour, saying he had an undiagnosed brain injury and bipolar disorder.
#MusicIndustry #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #RaceRelations #Music #RudiMaxwell
How a peaceful Invasion Day gathering in Perth turned to chaos
By Keane Bourke, Cason Ho, and Pip Waller
Premier Roger Cook says the way an orderly protest was targeted "runs against the very heart of what it means to be Australian". So what really happened in Perth's CBD on Australia Day?
#Police #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryParliament #GovernmentandPolitics #IndigenousAustralians #RaceRelations #Crime #Demonstrations #KeaneBourke #CasonHo # #PipWaller
New hate laws have passed parliament. What do they actually do?
By Sara Tomevska
The new laws grant powers for the government to list so-called hate groups, more easily deport or cancel the visas of individuals associated with hate groups and create new aggravated penalties for leaders who advocate violence.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-21/what-will-new-hate-laws-do/106253754
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Laws #Discrimination #RaceRelations #SaraTomevska
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act over Minnesota anti-ICE protests
Such a move would allow the president to deploy troops to quell persistent protests in the city of Minneapolis, where two shootings connected to immigration crackdowns are fuelling public anger.
#WorldPolitics #Immigration #RaceRelations #Activism #UnrestConflictandWar #GovernmentandPolitics #LawCrimeandJustice
'Just get rid of it': Jewish body warns against religious text 'loophole'
By Maani Truu and Clare Armstrong
Representatives of the Jewish community and the Australian Human Rights Commission give submissions to a snap parliamentary hearing called to probe Labor's legislative response to the Bondi terror attack.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/jewish-groups-warns-against-religious-text-defence/106228086
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #Judaism #Discrimination #RaceRelations #Religion #FundamentalRights #Islam #Laws #MaaniTruu #ClareArmstrong
ICE shooting in Minneapolis the latest flashpoint in Trump's war on migration
By Elissa Steedman
The fatal shooting of a legal observer by an ICE agent in Minneapolis is the latest flashpoint in Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration.
#WorldPolitics #Immigration #RaceRelations #Crime #ElissaSteedman
America's 250th birthday party will serve up a toxic brew of exceptionalism
By Nick Bryant
It is entirely fitting that the US is so splintered on its semiquincentennial. Division, for the lion's share of its history, has been its default.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-04/on-its-250th-birthday-america-is-being-america/106193418
#WorldPolitics #GovernmentandPolitics #RaceRelations #History #ArtsCulturalandEntertainmentEvents #NickBryant
Queensland man arrested following dozens of antisemitic graffiti offences
By Jake Kearnan
A Coolum Beach man is charged with 25 counts of wilful damage following a spate of antisemitic graffiti incidents.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-22/queensland-man-arrested-for-antisemitic-graffiti/106170620
