Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan proposed a new national anti-racism framework on Wednesday.
The federal government’s funding for anti-racism initiatives ended in 2015. The Australian Human Rights Commission has covered the issue since.
The Commissioner says events such as the pandemic, the indigenous Black Lives Matter movement, and the Christchurch shooting, have highlighted currents of racism that otherwise run unchecked in our communities.
He says that like domestic violence and child abuse, racism should have a strategy funded by the federal government.
The proposed plan includes initiatives to investigate legislative reform to better protect people from racial hatred.