Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Racism systematically disadvantages and immensely harms people of colour. The dispossession of and violence against First Nations that started with invasion continues to this day. The 21st of March is marked the world over as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, IDERD, which the Howard government replaced with Harmony Day to erase historic and ongoing racism in Australia. Then the Morrison government concocted Harmony Week, an entire week to whitewash the reality of racism. Not actively tackling racism at this time while hiding behind a mask of harmony is hollow and harmful, and it doesn't make us feel good. Minister, will the Albanese government replace the superficial Harmony Week with a meaningful week of antiracism?