International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Many schools around Australia mark Harmony Week - a celebration of Australia's diverse and multi-cultural society.
Changing Perspectives: Harmony is a worthy aspiration, but the work of combating racism isn’t over
The Howard Government rebranded the day as Harmony Day around the time of the Eureka Research report in the late 1990s – an ...
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Annual National Day of Racial Healing encourages racial harmony
More than 100 people attended the sixth annual Greater Williamsburg National Day of Racial Healing on Tuesday. Held the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday, the National Day of ...
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Federal agency urged to tackle racism in workplaces
Companies would be required to gather data on the racial composition of their workplace and report steps taken to tackle ...
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Harmony Day dispute: ‘Not every national day needs to focus on discrimination’
The Australian Human Rights Commission has complained that Australia’s decision to rename International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as Harmony Day in 1999 “turned the day ...
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Racial and ethnic harmony
On its campus, students, faculty and staff of many races and ethnic backgrounds live and work closely together day by day in offices ... are expected to contribute to an atmosphere of racial and ...
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Harmony Day ‘hides racism’, says government watchdog
But the AHRC complains that Australia’s decision to rename IDERD as Harmony Day in 1999 has “turned the day from a protest against racial discrimination into a celebration’’.