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Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
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Respect paid Leo Flynn from Resurrection School in Keysborough stands among war veterans at the Anzac Day service in Noble Park on Sunday 24 April. Leo, who is the grandson of Noble Park RSL vice-president Ray McCarthy, masterfully delivered a poem Tribute to Anzac Day during the ceremony at a packed memorial park. A dawn service and 11am march will also take place in Dandenong today, 25 April. For more, turn to page 9
Picture: DALLAS GOLDBURG
Anti-racism push Racist incidents are significantly under-reported in Greater Dandenong and Casey, according to a recent in-depth study. The report Towards Improved Anti-Racism Support in Casey and Greater Dandenong conducted by Victoria University in partnership with the two councils was launched on Thursday 20 April at Bunjil Place. The report consisted of a community survey and 11 peer facilitated focus groups over an 18 month period in 2021 and 2022.
Its key findings were 61 per cent of the people surveyed experienced racism in the past 12 months. Out of these, 58 per cent of the racist encounters took place in their employment, 47 per cent in shopping centres, 41 per cent in educational and school settings and 38 per cent in public transport and social media. Common forms of racism were microaggressions, insults, and unfair treatment. Four-out-of-five respondents who experienced racism did not report it because they didn’t think it would change anything, didn’t
know where to go, had language barriers, didn’t trust existing services or were concerned about negative backlash. And those who did report racist incidents were disappointed with the reporting experience and outcome. Associate Professor Mario Peucker said he wasn’t surprised of the report findings. “The projects ends but the actual work starts now.” The report concludes with six recommendations to tackle racism.
Some of the recommendations are highlighting multiculturalism, the representation of people from CALD backgrounds and related to this is the lack of representation in leadership roles as an effect of “exclusionary structures and processes and cementing of exclusionary boundaries”. A “pivotal” and meaningful local antiracism practice in both municipalities is also among the recommendations along with diversifying reporting pathways to meet different needs in different situations of residents. Continued page 4
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By Sahar Foladi