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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Reparations between Germans and the British are up to you. That doesn’t absolve your country of the guilt you bear for colonisation.

You claimed it first. No guilt, no personal responsibility. So tell me where you came from.

Humanitarianism In The Modern World. Cambridge University Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1108655903

The 60 million is £525,000 adjusted for inflation. Just rechecked and depending on which inflation calculator I use it varies between 55 and 60 million. Still a substantial sum.

Queen Victoria donated £2000. The equivalent of around £210,000 today.

Lightbulb moment! Neither are we.

In 1973 the Nationality and Citizenship act was renamed the Australian Citizenship Act, but Australia continued to issue British passports and only stopped recognizing Australian citizens as British subjects in 1984. I remember my uncle making the decision to keep his British citizenship as he was a pilot and it made international employment easier for him.

The British ended slavery because it wasn’t as profitable anymore and because of the massive revolts in places like Jamaica.

So please don’t pretend Britain ended slavery for moral reasons.

Britain is what it is due to the blood, sweat and tears of slavery and colonial rule and people need to remember that.

Please elaborate on my lie. Your delusions are getting the better of you.

Yes I'm wondering too re that poster and the question, beyond their anger and insults.

I don’t know the correct figures for those with Irish ancestry in GB, but I think people forget that Ireland was part of the UK when many Irish people moved there, after the Famine for example. So it was more akin to someone moving from Scotland to London in that sense. The island of Ireland was part of the UK from 1801 to 1922.

I was shocked by the casual racism that appeared to be everywhere in Australia when I visited in 2015. Particularly toward the aboriginals.

It was the one thing I really didn't like about the country and culture.

So sadly, this doesn't surprise me.

That was war between two nations, hardly the same as slavery.

If you’re talking about the current unrest in Ireland, I genuinely don’t think it’s predominantly about colour. Obviously there are racists in Ireland that will hate anyone with differing colour, religion etc. But I come from a centre left/ left leaning background and social circle and the unhappiness with the level of immigration and asylum seekers has been steadily growing for the last few years. Many have now swung to the right. We don’t have the housing and infrastructure for all of these new people. We have 16k+ of our own homeless and we’re spending millions and millions housing people who may or may not have the right to be here. There are a lot of those who are given or hold the right to be here that do not work and depend on the benefits system. It’s just completely unsustainable.

It’s further exacerbated by the fact that people cannot afford to buy or rent homes, and even if they could they’re not available. Their children are emigrating because they cant buy a house and see no future prospects. People can’t afford their utilities but any support on that front is set to be cut in the upcoming budget. They are struggling to get doctors and dentist appointments because the clinics are overwhelmed. Children are dying on hospital waiting lists because we don’t have the necessary health service and investment in health care. They are struggling to get school places because they’re overwhelmed. The list goes on.

There is so much wrong in the country at the moment and I can completely understand why people are so aggrieved at the level of immigration and asylum applications.

Sure, not all of those problem are related to immigration and asylum seekers, but if we curtailed the level of people coming in it would obviously help with housing, infrastructure and budgetary issues. We are spending over €1.5billion on asylum seeker accommodation alone every year and that figure is steadily increasing. It’s not sustainable, it’s not about race, and I totally understand why people are upset and pissed off.

Did you not learn about the potsdam conference in school?

Germany had to pay reparations after losing WW2, to the allied nations and to holocaust victims.

It is a problem in Ireland too.
Especially around housing prices, the Indian community are buying a lot of properties, the prices are rising, people are being out-bid, they're looking for someone to blame.
3 homes on my street were bought by Indian families, they're lovely neighbours.
My sister moved into a new build estate, the majority of her neighbours are working professional Indian families.
Racist attacks have increased against the Indian community by thugs, thankfully the decent Irish people are standing against the bullying.
It's sickening.

So you are invested in creating Guilt. Who are you? If you are standing with a pointed finger of Entitled Reproach, let’s see who you are, and please give all your data that renders you Entitled to dish out historical blame onto ordinary people.

where is the Department for Blaming and Reproach that you are the head of?

or are you a just a misguided self important person puffing themselves up with resentment baggage of past times.

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

Not this Canard…yes yes the British (through the blockade of Africa, and the Africa Squadroon) were at the forefront of the fight to abolish slavery globally. And yes the Royal Navy was at the forefront of that with the nation spending 1% of GDP on that fight….

But

This was after spending centuries being enthusiastic slavers, trafficking 3-3.5 MILLION enslaved Africans to be worked to death on plantations throughout the Americas (second only in number to the Portuguese who commenced a century before.) Many of the enslaved died while being trafficked (or were deliberately mass murdered such as on the Zong) died in “Seasoning Camps”, or died after a short period on the Sugar plantations which were so barbaric and the death rates so high, they required a constant supply of newly enslaved Africans given mortality exceeded birth rates by 3% per annum. And those who did manage to survive were ethnically cleansed, denied even their names.

And the Royal Navy while the heroes of the post slavery abolition and emancipation eras was key in securing those slave routes for British slave ships.

And that’s without mentioning that modern day anti-black racism (including medical racism) is rooted in the myths created by the pro-slavery camp.

So yes we should celebrate abolition in 1807 (though emancipation took another 25 years), celebrate the work done by men such as Sharp, Wilberforce and Clarkson as well as recognising the Quakers for always being on the right
side of history on the topic of slavery.

But in recognising that let’s not downplay / whitewash Britain’s role before that yeah.

Ah, now that’s another story and thread. In short, my theory is this: social media, wilful misinformation by the other side, and a bloc of older Australians who are easy prey to that misinformation.

@MooseLooseAboutTheHoose well said.
I'm saving for private dental care, 2 DC with SN, teeth grind, not a hse or hospital appointment in sight.
They need sedation.

Yep this.

Wow! Are there no equality laws that can be brought to bear in these instances?

I can't see how that would be tolerated in the UK as race is a protected feature under equality law.