Osman Faruqi worked as the deputy editor of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Life and as a reporter with the ABC's investigative audio program, Background Briefing, and was the former political editor at Junkee.
16 Facts About Osman Faruqi
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Osman Faruqi is known as a contributor to The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and others.
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Osman Faruqi was born in Pakistan and came to Australia at the age of two.
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Osman Faruqi is the son of the Australian Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.
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Osman Faruqi frequently writes on issues related to Australian politics, culture, and identity.
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Osman Faruqi frequently writes on matters related to racial, ethnic and cultural identity in Australia, including the government's approach to Black Lives Matter, anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia, and the threat of far-right terrorism in Australia.
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Osman Faruqi has written critically about the response to COVID-19 in Victoria.
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Osman Faruqi has criticised the application of compliance fines for breaches of COVID-19 regulations, arguing that these have been disproportionately targeted at migrant and Indigenous Australians.
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Osman Faruqi has been highly critical of what he calls "racist fear mongering" in Australian media coverage of the purported "African gangs" issue in Melbourne.
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Osman Faruqi has noted that senior police officials in Victoria have expressed skepticism about the claim of a widespread crisis related to crime committed by African Australians in Melbourne.
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In 2018, Osman Faruqi publicly criticised his fellow ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson for interviewing far-right figure and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, contending that she failed to properly interrogate Bannon's extreme views on race, and had "thrown me and other PoC under the bus".
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Osman Faruqi was targeted on Twitter before he deleted his Twitter account.
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In 2018, Osman Faruqi successfully sued former Australian Labor Party leader and current One Nation NSW Senator Mark Latham for defamation.
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Latham had accused Osman Faruqi of "aiding and abetting Islamic terrorism" and fostering "anti-white racism in Australia" in a broadcast of his online politics show Mark Latham's Outsiders made on 2 August 2017.
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Osman Faruqi subsequently received a torrent of online abuse, including death threats.
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When interviewed later by The Monthly, Osman Faruqi said that "being accused of being a terrorist when you're a brown guy from a Muslim background in Australia is a pretty scary thing".