Report on 2007 Australian Capital Territory Racism Survey

Over the last ten years the "Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Project" has been collecting primary empirical data on racist attitudes and on experiences of racism across Australia. The current mission of that research program is to use the data that have been collected to assist with anti-racism. The geographic spread of the data will allow that assistance to be regionally sensitive. The primary data bases collected so far, along with their funding sources, include: "Attitudes on cultural diversity and racism", Queensland and NSW, 2001 (n:5056) (ARC Large Grant Project). "Experiences of racism" (nation-wide), 2006 (n:4020) (ARC Discovery Project). "Attitudes on cultural diversity and racism", Victoria, 2006 (n:4016) (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation). "Attitudes on cultural diversity and racism, and peoples' awareness of the anti-racism legislation and agencies", South Australia, 2007 (n:1484) (HREOC, EOCSA, UNSW). 3 "Attitudes on cultural diversity and racism, and peoples' awareness of the anti-racism legislation and agencies", Australian Capital Territory, 2007 (n:454) (HREOC, HRC ACT, UNSW). "Attitudes on cultural diversity and racism", Northern Territory, Tasmania and Perth, 2008 (n:@1300) (Department of Immigration and Citizenship). This report details some of the key findings from one of the most recent of these data bases" the ACT. This data set was collected by the Social Research Centre in Melbourne. The survey utilised questions developed for the 2001 and 2006 surveys of Queensland (Qld), NSW and Victoria. It also included questions regarding peoples' awareness of the anti-racism legislation and agencies. These questions were jointly developed by researchers from Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Project, SRC staff, as well as officers from the National Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), the Human Rights Commission of the ACT (HRC ACT), and the Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australian (EOCSA).