Australia has no national hate crime database, but here’s how to build one

Various databases tracking hate crimes exist in Australia, but they are not yet cross-referenced to track such crimes or their perpetrators across the country.

A memorial to the victims near Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch on Monday. Source: The New York Times

In the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attack, many in Australia have raised the concern that effective precautions against the emergence of extreme right-wing violence had not been taken, and called for the establishment of a national hate crime database.

 

Nick Kaldas, the former Deputy Commissioner of New South Wales Police, has called for the creation of a centralised database for hate crime. It is a resource that the eight Australian state and federal police forces do not currently share. His position was also backed by opposition leader Bill Shorten.

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