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| UpdatedThere's more to time capsules than fond childhood memories of burying hand-written notes. In their earlier days, they were used in the promotion of eugenics.
Topics: history, 19th-century, 20th-century, race-relations, human-interest, united-states, australia
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Onrae Williams on the crime law that changed his life.
Topics: race-relations, united-states
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| UpdatedOnrae Williams fell victim to South Carolina's three-strikes law and was sentenced to life in prison for a drug deal. With the state the next to hold a Democrat primary, issues with America's criminal justice system are on the minds of many casting their votes for the next presidential contender.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, race-relations, us-elections, united-states
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Indigenous activist Joe Williams has denounced the email saying it does not represent modern Australia.
Topics: race-relations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, local-government, dubbo-2830
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| UpdatedDubbo councillor Kevin Parker is suspended from his role as a part-time branch manager at the Bank of Queensland after sending out an email with offensive remarks, which he said he found on social media.
Topics: race-relations, community-and-society, government-and-politics, local-government, dubbo-2830, nsw
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Any serious attempt to grapple with the threat posed by the modern far-right movement will also have to reckon with its weirder but equally disturbing twin: conspiracy theories, writes Elise Thomas.
Topics: terrorism, race-relations, community-and-society, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedA 23-year-old Aussie Rules player will be kicked out of the sport for a second time after being found guilty of racially vilifying an opponent earlier this month.
Topics: australian-football-league, race-relations, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-culture, sports-injuries, discrimination, human-interest, darwin-0800, wurrimiyanga-0822, marrara-0812
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Federal Parliament's most prominent Jewish MP warns that far-right extremism is rising across the world, including in some parts of Australia.
Topics: government-and-politics, 20th-century, world-war-2, history, federal-government, defence-and-national-security, security-intelligence, race-relations, community-and-society, terrorism, australia
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Stan Grant clashes with the Chinese Ambassador on QandA over the Communist Party's treatment of Uyghurs.
Topics: race-relations, china
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| UpdatedKatherine Johnson, a mathematician for NASA's early space missions and who was later portrayed in the hit film Hidden Figures about pioneering black female aerospace workers, dies aged 101.
Topics: history, community-and-society, race-relations, death, biography-film, science-and-technology, mathematics, astronomy-space, united-states
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Its inventor came up against some "really evil stuff". The Nazis, Stalin and even the Vatican have banned it. In its relatively short life, the saxophone has attracted a whole lot of controversy.
Topics: music, music-industry, music-education, instrument-making, history, community-and-society, race-relations, human-interest, australia, united-states, belgium, france, united-kingdom, qld
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| UpdatedASIO director-general Mike Burgess says "small cells" of right-wing extremists are regularly gathering to salute Nazi flags, inspect weapons and "disperse their hateful ideology".
Topics: government-and-politics, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, race-relations, community-and-society, terrorism, australia
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| UpdatedQuaden Bayles's story has given the world a glimpse of the cruel reality an Indigenous child living with a disability can face. Other Indigenous families are watching on knowing the battle for better care for their own children is far from over.
Topics: bullying, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, disabilities, social-media, health-policy, health, race-relations, australia, nsw
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Topics: arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, contemporary-art, race-relations, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
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Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, visual-art, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, race-relations
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| UpdatedThe British Prime Minister is being criticised for not responding to a controversy surrounding Andrew Sabisky's views on race, intelligence and compulsory contraception.
Topics: race-relations, world-politics, discrimination, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedWhen Corey Tutt was in year 10, his careers counsellor told him he would never succeed in science and that he could either pick a trade, end up in jail or die. Now he is working to ensure Aboriginal kids like him get all the opportunities they could possibly want.
Topics: indigenous-policy, social-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, race-relations, community-and-society, health, child-health-and-behaviour, education, access-to-education, australia, cairns-4870, qld, nsw, forster-2428, camperdown-2050
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| UpdatedOur enduring and life-defining connection to the land tests the assumptions and limits of Australian sovereignty. We have been reminded of that again this week with a landmark High Court ruling, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, race-relations, constitution, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-other-peoples, indigenous-policy, australia
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| UpdatedA student studying in Perth returned from a Chinese New Year holiday to Malaysia to be confronted with a sign saying "you are no longer welcome" taped to her front door.
Topics: diseases, disease-control, race-relations, infectious-diseases-other, university-and-further-education, perth-6000, wa
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Royal Caribbean Cruises says it has "clarified its policies" on banning Chinese passport holders over coronavirus fears — even those who had not been back to their homeland recently.
Topics: travel-health-and-safety, epidemics-and-pandemics, diseases-and-disorders, health, government-and-politics, community-and-society, race-relations, melbourne-3000, united-states, china, vic
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| UpdatedThe most conservative judge on the US Supreme Court was once a "dedicated black militant" who memorised the speeches of Malcolm X. This is the story of his "long march to the right".
Topics: world-politics, judges-and-legal-profession, government-and-politics, politics-and-government, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, rights, race-relations, history, united-states
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| UpdatedA Melbourne promotional company apologises after being accused of organising a "racist" and "insensitive" nightclub event that profited off the coronavirus health emergency.
Topics: community-and-society, race-relations, lifestyle-and-leisure, discrimination, melbourne-3000, prahran-3181
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| UpdatedAlex Lim from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce tells Virginia Trioli that coronavirus fears is damaging business in Box Hill, and urges the community to "play their part" and "not be overwhelmed by fear".
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, respiratory-diseases, diseases, disease-control, race-relations, melbourne-3000, box-hill-3128
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| UpdatedTrees have long been icons of our ancient bushland, and they hold deep cultural significance for Aboriginal people. But they also bear the marks of our contested national history.
Topics: indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environment, fires, disasters-and-accidents, race-relations, community-and-society, bushfire, trees, history, australia, nsw, burketown-4830, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, vic, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedA letter from SA Speaker Vincent Tarzia also reveals Liberal MP Sam Duluk's behaviour at a Liberal Party Christmas function is being investigated.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, sexual-misconduct, race-relations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, liberals, aboriginal, adelaide-5000, blackwood-5051, sa