We are having the wrong debate about the Racial Discrimination Act. Rather than moving to water it down, we should be investigating how the Act might be strengthened in order to reduce the public health burden of racism.

This argument is made below by Deakin University academics, Dr Naomi Priest, a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, and Dr Dominique Allen, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law.

– Melissa Sweet

via The Racial Discrimination Act needs strengthening – not weakening: a public health perspective | Croakey.