Now the Australians are protesting

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Their main target is Indians.
Indians. Who have come legally - not on boats - but on aeroplanes, with the correct visas, who are students seeking further education in order to train as doctors, nurses, or whatever so that they can give back to Australia - Or they are already trained in a profession that the government has outlined has a shortage.

Australia is absolutely solid to get into with specific qualifications or experience being a mandatory requirement and the financial means to support one self. The whole western world constantly puts Australia on a pedestal for not being a soft touch for immigration. How are these protesters questioning the value of this diaspora's contribution to the Australian economy, and how can anybody deny that it's pure racism?

Australia doesn't have a problem luring white British nurses and doctors to their shores with generous repatriation packages, but an Indian nurse or doctor aren't good enough. Australians don't have a problem with their white teenagers or graduates emigrating to western countries for 10 years before fucking off back to Australia when it's time to settle down, but god forbid anybody does it the other way

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/05/melbourne-immigration-migrated-indians-targeted-racist-messaging-asking-why-ntwnfbArticle
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What plans are those?

Maybe you lot could start returning artefacts you've stolen from across the world back to where they belong - that includes Australia.

Plans, which distract voters from concentrating on being let down by consecutive governments. All the while people are apologising for past events, others will feed off this weak stance.

What a disgusting, ignorant thread. The British have done so much damage colonising half the world and you think you have the high moral ground here?

Let’s start with reparations for slavery and black birding.

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It is impossible to ignore the impact of colonisation, when considering the effects on Australia's First Nations. Many languages and cultures were destroyed during the process, which can never be regained. The intergenerational trauma is immense. To give some perspective, this is a map which shows colonial frontier massacres in Australia from from 1788 - 1930. It is horrifying.

We as a nation have taken responsibility, see my previous post on the apology. In saying this, I do not blame the British for issues today. We have a lot of work as a country to move forward. We always need to be working to do better.

Here is a link to the website if you are interested in more information.
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unsettled/remembering-massacres/map-of-colonial-frontier-massacres/

Have you bought a house in Australia? Maybe First Nation people would like that land back. Look at your own actions first.

No skin off my nose. You crack on. The OP hasn't returned. Say no more.

In the UK they like to protest against them coming home to the motherland after they stole from them. Made their country poorer and turned them into a commonwealth country under the monarchy.

I don’t need your permission, but cool.

Thanks for the link, I’m fine for you to say you have more work to do. It is within your remit to do so.

You're going to tell me to go back to where I come from next!

Yes, the racism is unbelievable but not surprising.

The British people donated the equivalent of nearly 60 million pounds in famine relief to Ireland.

Strange actions for a people intent on genocide.

And......unwatch thread.

Haha it's your lack of accountability that's glaring. Blaming others, but if I said a First Nation person would like their land back what would you say?

Would you say yes or no way

I'm interested in how accountable that poster feels they are. I don't want their land, it did belong to someone else first though.

I wonder if they can see that.

We are going to see a lot more of this.

Many countries governments are struggling and cutting back services and movement of people has increased. Many people do not want to see new comers to the country they have grown up in doing well or reaping any of what they see as their hard worked benefits

it goes back to people being selfish and looking after their own interests, deep rooted imbalance of equality. We can all be guilty of this and it plays out in different ways

I found many Australians to be very openly racist it felt like stepping back in time the language used, but I find Australians to often be more upfront than we are in the uk, the racism here is more often underhand

I know you think you have a gotcha here but your are so embarrassingly ignorant it's unbelievable.

I am going to agree that verbalized racism is getting worse and worse. I don’t put it down to a change in ideology, but the massive increase in population. The cost of living is untenable and people are looking for someone to blame. I live in Brisbane and the population in 1980 was 1,135,000. This year it is predicted to be 2,887,000. Melbourne was 2,839,000 and this year it is approx 5,391,890. We don’t have enough water to sustain this kind of population explosion. We have much less primary industry now than we did then and we rely heavily on imported food and manufactured products. Most of our larger companies have outsourced their customer service to bots or international call centres, we have built Mc Mansions on most of our arable land, cars, etc very expensive to import and we have no Australian manufacturers at all.
People are unhappy and rather than changing the “system”, they are looking to blame anyone else…

I see I thought you might lash out. That's a no then, keep what you have but don't blame others for your actions.

Your repetition is boring and reductive.

As if i could afford to buy a house in Australia. Doesn't make you argument unless less ignorant.

I was responding then was distracted so could not write my full reply:

I have no issue with discussing Britain as a colonial force but by claiming it was a British policy done by Britons and no mention of the people being involved as bring Australian you are white washing your history.

And you know that.

It’s more ironic given that when Australians were enacting the White Australia policy and when Australians were removing Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal children from their homes my family / ancestors weren’t even in Britain! Yet my friend’s son was taught that a foreign nation was 100% responsible for Australian policy so he wanted to ask me for more info but not actual Australians and the descendants of those carrying out said policy.

Australia is the ONLY settler state to whitewash its history in this way (and maybe Argentina). The Yanks, Brazilians, South Africans, Peruvians, Canadians, Mexicans etc. all acknowledge their dark history as being their history and not by pretending they had nothing to do with it it was the fault of the English, Britons, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese. Which shows a degree of backwardsness in Australian socio-political commentary and a refusal to properly reconcile with its past.

Just be an adult and acknowledge YOUR dark history which is what a country actually ready to right the wrongs of its past would do.