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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It's a horribly racist country, and the whole thing is deeply ironic. Sally Morgan, a First Nation writer and artist, wrote a biography of her quest to find her aboriginal identity - precisely because she'd been raised until 15 years of age to believe she was Indian.

First Nation people had to pretend they were Indian on fear of being removed from their own families and raised in orphanages. Morgan had a white father. In the event of a divorce, first nation mothers were not allowed to keep children fathered by white men.

That history is shamefully recent so this news surprises me not one iota.

Yes. It's not a word that has ever even existed. 'curry muncher' is the racist slur used for those from Pakistan and India.

Name the restaurant.

Name the suburb where only Indians can live.

Name the suburb where only Chinese can live or where strata organisations only speak in non-English.

This seems like a convenient set of circumstances to justify a racist protest.

It's a lingering aspect of our British heritage, but fortunately we've overcome most of it.

Have you?

Now apply your interrogation to when a black poster talks about their experience of racism.

There is no area in the UK that is for muslims only. Not one.

Not formally, no.

Why are you bringing posters race into things? Take your racism elsewhere. I am an Australian so that’s why I am questioning her claims.

Err, because we are discussing racism.

So none.

Which is what I said.

Many Australians now are the descendants of those “Brits”.

That's right, and the remnants of racism that linger in Australia are part of our British heritage. But we're doing a good job of overcoming such negative attitudes, while the British themselves still appear to be struggling.

That is not my experience. The stolen generation persisted well into the twentieth century long after Federation. No one that I have ever encountered is blaming the British for that.

However it cannot be denied that colonization of Australia occurred under British rule.

But also many many other immigrants in Australia are also racist. British and Australians don’t have the monopoly on that.

Then you don't know the changing culture of Birmingham, for instance.

The British are now saying they've had enough of being called racists, when they share their concerns about mass immigration.

No just take responsibility for your country instead. No ‘remnants’. It’s Australians who are accountable.

So racism in modern Australian, conducted by people of diverse origins (there were people on the march who were recent migrants and others who claimed to be Australian of Greek, Lebanese, Italian etc descent) their racism is all due to “The British”.

😂

You clearly haven’t got rid of trying to pass the buck. Time to move on.

True, as we've been saying for a long time. It's our more independent attitude that has enabled us to cast aside a lot of the more regrettable aspects of British culture, such as the racism that used to be as common here as it still is in the old country.

Also, things like trans rights (I won't linger on that as I have my own views) are more 'progressive' than the UK

The Australian view on women is anything but progressive (no surprise whatsoever).

Australia has ruled, as you said that anyone who says they are a woman, is a woman.

So ‘women’ as a sex cease to exist because men can be women, apparently. The opposite ruling to the Supreme Court in the UK who confirmed (😶) that yes biological sex is real and biological sex matters. Thank god.

I support 💯 % all women in Australia campaigning to overturn the original ruling.

LOL!!

I am literally a born and bred Brummie. And have only lived in inner city areas.

I lived for years in Perry Barr which has a huge muslim population and apart from our neighbour leaving out food for birds we had no issues.

There are no Muslim only areas in the UK.

Your repeated racism and Islamophobia and commenting on cities you are clearly ignorant of bores me.

We’re done here.

Ah, so Sparkhill and Bordesley Green are budding examples of white people being welcomed with open arms. I taught in a college in Bordesley Green - sexism was rife but a different thread. Aside from also being born in Brum, my teaching experience qualifies me to discuss, while avoiding the lazy accusation of Islamophobia.

Before you reply to me I urge you to walk and use public transport through sparkhill, birmingham. It is true. Even though I'm perceived as white, my grandparents came from another country. So I'm not anti anyone.

Yes good to have an independent attitude. Keep going with it. Whether Australia has good or bad parts is entirely down to Australians, not the British. Time to really move on.

This post makes me laugh!!
Seriously, look at all your posts on this thread only, never mind all the other threads i have encountered you on.
You have had enough of being called racist?

You won’t like Australia then. We have 30% overseas born here, compared to the UK’s 17%! 50% of the population here has at least one parent born overseas too.

To be fair if the British are fed up with immigration they need to have large families to correct the demographics of an aging population and a smaller young tax base of skilled workers to pay for the essential services. However we are a free society and many women today do not personally want big families. That’s why even the Conservatives couldn’t turn off the immigration tap. Immigrants are on average younger and more skilled than the resident population.

I predict if Reform gets into government, they will dramatically reduce permanent immigration but go with temporary visas, which will allow businesses to bring in large numbers of overseas workers. That’s what the previous “stop the boats!” Government did in Australia. It was their slogan actually and the British have borrowed it. Temporary workers had the effect of reducing wages, because they were put on contracts paying less.