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Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland Training Courses ISSN 1441-4872 ISSN ISSUE 24 MAY 2007 BALANCING THE ACT Mabo Oration 2007 Please note your diaries for Friday 5 June 2007, the date of the next Mabo Oration. This year’s Mabo Oration will be delivered by well- known Aboriginal leader, Professor Larissa Behrendt. Prof Behrendt is Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is also a Judicial Member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Equal Opportunity Division and the alternate Chair of the Serious Offenders review Board. She has published on property law, Indigenous rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women’s issues. Larissa is also an author, a Board Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, a Director of the Sydney Writer’s Festival and the Bangarra Dance Theatre. This year’s Mabo Oration will be held at the Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, on Friday 15 June, between 5.30 and 7.30 pm. The event will include entertainment by well-known Aboriginal singer Kev Carmody, and drum and didgeridoo players. Tickets are $15.00 (plus $1.50 booking fee), and are available from QTIX on 13 62 46. Light refreshments will be available before the Oration. The event will be signed by Auslan interpreters. Photo of Eddie Mabo reproduced with permission from The Age Photo Sales. Photographer: Jim McEwan. Disclaimer: The contents of this newsletter are for information purposes only, and should not be seen as legal advice. www.adcq.qld.gov.au [email protected] STATEWIDE BRISBANE CAIRNS TOWNSVILLE ROCKHAMPTON telephone 300 30 670 level 1/189 Coronation Drv Mcleod Chambers 155-157 Denham St Level 1 James Larcombe Place teletypewriter 300 30 680 PO Box 2122 78 Spence St Townsville Q 4810 209 Bolsover St PO Box 1390 www.adcq.qld.gov.au Milton Q 4064 PO Box 4699 DX41421 Rockhampton Q 4700 [email protected] DX 44037 Cairns Q 4870 FAX (07) 4799 7021 DX41168 DX41346 FAX (07) 4938 4459 FAX (07) 4039 8609 Commissioner’s report: What do Queenslanders really think about racism and discrimination? Over the years there have been many who have said likely to be based on media reports, rather than that Queensland is a racist place. lived experience, and there is likely to be greater Until recently there was no way of knowing whether antipathy. Queensland was really different from other places. What of those media reports? Over recent times I have Now, two research reports have directly considered had lots of calls from Aboriginal and Torres Strait people’s attitudes and experience of racism, offering Islander people. Many have expressed genuine hurt the prospect that good research will help build strong, at media commentary. They felt stereotyped: they effective anti-racism strategies. weren’t drunks, they contribute to their community and they are not violent. Positive stories of success in the The first research report is a comprehensive survey community and stories about Indigenous families living of attitudes to racism by Associate Professor in an ordinary life are less likely to be reported. Callers Geography at the University of New South Wales, wondered if stereotyping like this would ever change in Kevin Dunn. This survey looked at attitudes to various Queensland. groups within the community, and analysed the data by regions. Dr Dunn found that in Queensland a significant The second report comes from the Confronting proportion of the population either self-identify as Racism in Communities Project, a joint undertaking racist or have expressed quite high levels of anti- of the University of the Sunshine Coast and Centre for Indigenous sentiment. This is similar to some other Multicultural Pastoral Care, financially supported by parts of Australia. the Queensland Government’s Multicultural Affairs Queensland. But it is not all bad news. The report documents 145 racist incidents throughout While Dr Dunn found that there was above-average Queensland. The research found that people from antipathy towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are people in south east Queensland, it was much less so experiencing various forms of racism including racially in the far north and north west Queensland. and religiously motivated violence, destruction of It is hard to know exactly why people hold racist personal property, threats of physical violence, verbal 2 attitudes. Dr Dunn makes a couple of suggestions. harassment and other forms of offensive speech and behaviour. The report also details racial and religious • In places where people know and live with discrimination in various areas of public life. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, they expressed less racist attitudes than those who did The researchers found that people from culturally and not have firsthand experience with A&TSI people. linguistically diverse backgrounds are reluctant to report racist incidents to authorities. • In places like south-east Queensland, where people are less likely to work and live with Aboriginal and This is consistent with our experience at the ADCQ. I Torres Strait Islander people, attitudes are more am often told about racist incidents but complaints are only rarely made to the ADCQ. Susan Booth at a recent interview with radio 4EB, with Bep Torkington. There is no point in pretending racism doesn’t exist. of Law, Director of Research at the Jumbunna But building a culture of blame does not help build Indigenous House of Learning, award-winning author stronger, more harmonious communities. and much more. These two research projects begin the journey to firstly See page 1 for more about ADCQ’s Mabo Oration understand racism in Queensland. Finally, I have been disturbed by reports of material The next step is to address racism in a positive way. supporting the Ku Klux Klan circulating in Cairns It is exciting that both these research projects intend to and Toowoomba. My sense is this is only a handful use their data to build anti-racism strategies – and my of people but my message is clear. This material is sense is that strategies based on real views have the unlawful and has no place in Queensland. greatest chance of success. The ADCQ is taking positive steps, too, including Susan Booth presentation of the foremost opportunity for exchange Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Queensland of ideas about Indigenous issues, the Mabo Oration. This year our orator is one of Australia’s outstanding young leaders Professor Larissa Behrendt, Professor Q&A Every year we accept hundreds of complaints. We also reject a significant number for a range of reasons. Below are some questions and answers about accepting and not accepting complaints. Question: I want to make a complaint about times and I explained what happened when I didn’t get discrimination. What are the main things I need to do? the job. What else do you need? Answer: A good first step is to give us a call on 1300 Answer: I think I know the case you’re talking about. 130 670 to discuss your complaint. Our enquiries The reason we didn’t accept this case as a complaint is staff can explain the complaint process and send you that you needed to show that the reason you didn’t get 3 any forms or brochures that might be helpful. The the job was because of your disability. You mentioned complaints form is also available from our website at in your complaint that you have a vision impairment www.adcq.qld.gov.au and that you thought you’d get the job because you’d The main things to keep in mind are that your done that sort of work before. You explained the complaint needs to: interview and the questions you were asked. You also mentioned the phone call advising that you’d been • be on the basis of one of the grounds under the Act unsuccessful. • be in one of the areas covered by the Act However, it’s not enough that you think or suspect • be in writing discrimination happened. There was nothing in the information you sent us to show that you didn’t get the • include your details and your address for service job because of your disability. • perhaps include a general statement of what For us to accept the complaint, we’d need to have happened and over what time, then list as many some evidence linking your treatment (not getting the examples of what happened as you can job) with your impairment. This might be something • show why you were targeted or treated this way, or like a comment from the interviewer saying that you why you were disadvantaged because of the ground couldn’t do the job because of your impairment, or (under the Act) eg your sex or age that someone without an impairment would be easier to work with, or that providing you with equipment to • what happened – who did what, what happened, meet your needs would be too expensive, or that if the when it occurred and where interviewer had known earlier about your disability you • be made within a year of the treatment you received. wouldn’t have been offered an interview. It could also Once you’ve done this, we can assess your complaint be a range of other things. and the process goes on from there. Our brochure It may well be that you didn’t get the job because of ‘Making a Complaint’ gives more details. It’s available your disability, but you need to show in your complaint from the website or from any of our offices. why you think this is the case. Question: I sent you a complaint a while ago and If you have any more information you can send us to you knocked it back.
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