Creating a whole-of-society database of hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech would greatly benefit communities, government and research stakeholders working on tackling hate.
In this post, we provide a repository of the key conversations with government and community stakeholders who explain why building a database of hate is a key priority, and how we need to do it.
In this video, Dr Matteo Vergani discusses with Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner Ro Allen the importance of collaboration between government and community organisations in collecting hate data (recoded in October 2021).
In this panel session, Prof Greg Barton discusses why a database of hate behaviours can contribute to advance fairness, equality, respect and understanding with three outstanding panellists: Prof Nicole Asquith, Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies and Secretary of the Australian Hate Crime Network, Mr Peter Wertheim, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, and Mr Josh Bull MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and co-chair of the Victorian Anti-Racism Task Force (recorded in October 2021).
In this video, Dan Goodhardt discusses with Victorian Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner Rachel Dixon how we can build a safe and well governed database of hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech in Victoria (recorded in October 2021).
In this video, Dr Matteo Vergani Race discusses with Commissioner Chin Tan barriers and solutions to create a national system of hate crime data collection in Australia. Chin Tan commenced his term as Race Discrimination Commissioner on October 8, 2018 (recorded in August 2020).
In this video, Dr Matteo Vergani discusses with Senator the Hon Kristina Keneally, Mr Luke Cornelius APM and Race Commissioner Mr Chin Tan why we need a national system for classifying and recording hate crimes in Australia (recoded in July 2020).