Sentences with phrase «verbal racial abuse»

According to the 2016 Australian Reconciliation Barometer, 37 % Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians reported experiencing verbal racial abuse in the six months prior to the Barometer survey.

Alltogether Now warns that the proposed changes overlook the psychological effects that are often triggered by verbal racial abuse, and which can «have a longer, and more pervasive effect than physical injury.

Yet a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had personally experienced verbal racial abuse in the previous 6 months, while one in four had witnessed racially - oriented physical violence.

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Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there — her grandchildren are all half - black, and Kast is white.

The study showed about 20 per cent of Australians had experienced forms of racial hate talk, verbal abuse or racial slurs; 11 per cent experienced work or social exclusion; and more than five per cent had been physically assaulted because of their race.