This cartoon (2009) by Rolf Heimann for Overland was in tandem with Richard Moore, the Melbourne film festival director, being grilled by the Chinese why a movie about Rebiya Kadeer should be in the Festival... (see also: and don't mention huavei...)

Yet, Overland had some issues with Richard Moore:

This week we learned that Richard Moore’s position as executive director of the Melbourne International Film Festival will not be renewed. 

Finally, I thought, there is some kind of justice in Melbourne.

It isn’t new, this animosity I have toward Moore. It started when he first took over MIFF and I noticed the ‘State of Israel’ logo appearing on pamphlets and at screenings, next to the inscrutable term: cultural partner.

Some people, apparently, do not find a partnership with the State of Israel offensive. I tried to explain away the Moore/MIFF embracement of Israel as unawareness. 

But I think there were some clues along the way. In 2007, MIFF ran a program celebrating Israeli cinema. In 2008, presumably due to the backlash from the ‘we love Israel –aren’t they stronger than ever’ stance, MIFF announced their Border Patrol section.

Read more:

https://overland.org.au/2010/02/there’s-no-censorship-here/

But this is about a new form of petty discrimination:

Management at a popular hotel run by Australia's largest hotel group has been directing staff to segregate Aboriginal people into inferior rooms while charging them the same price as other guests, an investigation by ABC's Background Briefing has revealed.

• The ABC obtains an email instructing staff to put people coming from "the communities" into special rooms
• When two groups make identical bookings, the Aboriginal group receives a room in an inferior condition
• Accor and the hotel's manager deny racially profiling guests

Employees at the Ibis Styles Alice Springs Oasis were instructed to direct guests from the communities — a local expression describing Aboriginal people from out of town — into one of six designated rooms.

One staff member, who disclosed details of the practice under the condition they were not named, told the ABC they witnessed it occur on hundreds of occasions.

"It was pretty much standard," the whistleblower explained. 

The instructions to racially profile guests were given in an email sent to Ibis Styles Alice Springs staff last June.

"Just to keep everyone in the loop we are now only putting hospital linen into rooms 85 to 90," the email read.

"These rooms are to be referred to as community rooms and we will try to limit them to just that, those coming from the communities.

"Reception ladies, please use a touch of initiative and allocate accordingly on arrival."

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-08/alice-springs-segregated-hotel-ro...