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‘I Didn’t Take the Easy Way’: Curtis Cheng’s Son on Fighting Hate with Tolerance
‘I Didn’t Take the Easy Way’: Curtis Cheng’s Son on Fighting Hate with Tolerance

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‘I Didn’t Take the Easy Way’: Curtis Cheng’s Son on Fighting Hate with Tolerance

Three years after the worst day of his life, Alpha Cheng picks his words with care. The 31-year old schoolteacher speaks out – sometimes. He talks about what he knows: racism, his friends and what happened to his father. In October 2015, Curtis Cheng was leaving work at Parramatta police station when he was shot [...]

By Generation Next|2019-01-07T15:57:41+11:00January 7th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: anti-racism, hate, tolerance, violence|0 Comments

Australia Broadly Tolerant, But Pockets Of Intense Prejudice Remain

Flickr Images "Social cohesion is not a destination,” says Andrew Markus. “We don’t get to the destination and say we’ve done it. It’s something we need to work at.” Markus is a Monash University professor who oversees the Scanlon reports, a now regular and widespread exercise to measure social cohesion in Australia. Its [...]

By Generation Next|2016-08-29T12:39:27+10:00August 29th, 2016|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: Cultural Diversity, discrimination, diversity, hate crimes, immigrants, migration, Multiculturalism, prejudice, Racial Discrimination, racism, racist, refugees, Scanlon Report, social cohesion, tolerance|0 Comments