Now the Australians are protesting

[MiddleAgedMusings]

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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Sure. It's not nice for you to hear you're part of the problem and it makes you angry, Who cares?

Just take responsibility. It'll be better for you and everyone there.

The practice of removing children from their families occurred from the early decades of the colony. It certainly would have been considered British then. (New South Wales, anyone?) This was a colonial policy that was continued until 1970, sadly. The school is not altogether wrong.

Also, the systemic racism right up until the 1960’s was during a period of time when white Aussies carried English passports and referred to the UK as “The Motherland.” Yes, the horrible policies were inhumane, but Australia looked to the Commonwealth for inspiration and education. I’m never, ever going to condone this or justify it (because it’s indefensible), but these atrocities were carried out in the name of the queen.

I'm sure you're living somewhere. I don't mind what you do, just take responsibility for your own actions.

The British were also instrumental in ending slavery. What reparations would you like to see, given that there is no one left alive who was involved in the slave trade ?

I’d love to see a source for that ridiculous claim of £60m in famine relief.

Robert Peel imported cheap Indian maize and corn that he SOLD, albeit below market price, to the poor and starving Irish, in an apparent effort to curb the starvation. Starvation caused by his government.

There were soup kitchens set up at one stage in 1846 or 1847, for all of about 6 months… the ‘famine’ lasted for nearly 7 years!

The Queen donated a couple thousand pounds of her own enormous wealth, and organised an half hearted, lacklustre call for relief funds that netted about £150k if I recall. No doubt that was purely done as another piece of propaganda to try and demonstrate to the outside world that genocide wasn’t happening in Ireland, when it clearly was.

The ‘efforts’ made by the British to relieve the Irish of the famine THEY caused, are no different to the US and Israeli funded GHF in present day. Pitiful, contrived and completely inadequate.

Where are you getting your figure of £60m???

No Australian, or anybody else, has ever carried an English passport.

I suggest you ask the nations who were colonised and now suffer inter generational trauma.

The complete lack of awareness in this is absolutely stunning.

You are partially correct, because the previous poster stated "English Passports. However Australians carried British passports and were considered British subjects until the implementation of Australian Citizenship in 1949. Australians passports continued to state "British Subjects" until the 1970s

Edit: In fact, it was not until 1984 that Australians ceased to be British subjects.

There are very large parts of Bradford/sheffield/Birmingham that are Muslim only

Very odd that many posters are blaming racism in Australia on British heritage. The ‘White Australia Policy’ was official policy until the 1970s, supported by the Australian electorate.

The UK has had its issues with racism like many other countries, but having travelled extensively and now lived in the UK for almost 20 years I think it’s far less racist than many other countries. Ignorance does exist everywhere.

And as for the apparent legacy of British racism, which country was a world leader in the abolition of the slave trade?

I wonder what’s going on. Clearly multiculturism is starting to crack. A tipping point has been reached. Are we going to silence the protest and discount it or is there any valid point being made that we are failing to hear?

I get this but then why highlight Indians / Chinese? Population increase is population increase. There are what - 1m Brits in Oz who are never mentioned in the rants about too many people?

While I completely get concerns about unsustainable population growth but when the protestors focus solely on the part of population growth that is non-white it does raise an eyebrow.

If you are going to quote me, at least be correct. Inter-generational trauma is what it is called, and it’s both sad and pathetic you don’t even know what this is.

It's utter madness. Let's face it, it's about colour.

Elbowpatch

Do you even realise that you are writing completely false and ignorant text?

So is it the British still doing it now?

What about when 9 million Australians voted against giving the indigenous population a voice in Parliament two years ago?

womensagenda.com.au/latest/one-year-on-indigenous-communities-reflect-on-the-failed-voice-to-parliament-referendum/

Oh the irony. My ancestors didn’t colonise or massacre anybody.

Where do I go to get repaid because my mum had to crouch under the table as a tiny kid while bombs were being dropped all around her by the Germans? Shall I rock up to Berlin and give them a big guilt trip.

You first, babe.

@Starlia

I don’t know what your ancestral background is, but:

• if your ancestors were Australian then is there not a possibility that they themselves were the colonisers?
• if you are Australian even by a couple of generations then your predecessors would have been part of the deliberate and official policy for a white Australia, an intentionally racist policy to limit non-while immigration

Or maybe is silly and irrational to judge others based on the actions of their ancestors