Research scholar Mudit Vyas examines 'diversity washing' on Pause with Nandini

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Each year Australia marks National Reconciliation Week between 27 May to 3 June. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey - the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively. The first date marks the May 27 referendum in 1967, which saw more than 90 per cent of voters support the inclusion of all Indigenous Australians in the census.
In the first National Reconciliation Week since the failure of last October's Voice to parliament referendum, Reconciliation Australia is urging supporters to continue to fight for "justice and rights" for Indigenous Australians.
In the context of the larger questions of restorative justice, a voice for those deliberately marginalised, and the question of representation of the Indian Diaspora in Australia, we spoke to Mudit Vyas, a recent research graduate from the Monash School of Media, Film & Journalism (MFJ). 
He studies cultural and creative industries. His thesis in Diversity washing of privilege in cultural economics - An Indian-Australian ideological scrutiny examines critical questions of the caste and cultural privileges within the Indian Diaspora and whether the same power structures that exist in India are being maintained in Australia, and all internal differences in access and caste dynamics subsumed under the garb of diversity inclusion. 
We examine who is being platformed, who isn’t, and what are some of the ways in which the actual ideals and aims of diversity outreaches in Australia can be realised.   

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