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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Sorry to disappoint but outside of Australia that IS the reputation Australia has. I think it’s unfair when compared to any other Western country but that is the reputation it has on the global
stage.

The constant reaction I get from people when I tell them I lived in Oz is shock with them wondering how I survived in a country “as racist
as Australia” (and it’s also a question I got from
fellow Britons INSIDE Australia ).

A lot of people think Australia and think White Australia policy and that’s its reputation globally
(despite people from all over the world moving there.)

I agree. I heard it all the time growing up in the UK. Have never heard that insult used of them here. Indians were until fairly recently a much smaller demographic, who came to Australia from Fiji (they had been taken there by the British).
Pakistanis are very recent arrivals as well.

My Mediterranean region friends from Greece, Italy, Armenia etc however were called “wogs” at school which was eye opening to me because that was a different insult in the UK used of black people. In fact Australians of that background have now co-opted the insult as their own term.

It is frequently incorrectly called the famine.

The definition of famine is scarcity of food.
There was significant exportation of Irish produce taken from the Irish to export to the UK.

The Irish were literally starved by the British which is why it ls known as The Great Hunger in Ireland.

Yep, we've done so, thanks.

And taking responsibility also entails being well aware of the colonial history of this nation, the many crimes and injustices that were committed, and what needs to be done to try to compensate for them.

I have no issue with discussing Britain as a colonial force but by claiming it was a British policy done by Britons you are white washing your history.

And you know that.

Good. Don't blame others, it's all within your power, stand on your own two feet and stop attaching anything you don't like to us.

Anything negative you can see right now is Australian not to do with the British.

Australia has taken accountability for the treatment of the First Nations people. The Australian Prime Minister apologised to the First Nations people in Australia in 2008.

Here is the video, I recommend watching it.

Must be nice to absolve yourself (assuming you have British ancestory) of the immeasurable and long lasting harm your colonising has done across the world (with Australia just one of the many examples). Whilst taking advantage of the spoils. Do you comfortably tell all the peoples living with the lines your people drew on maps to deal with it as it's their problem now.

Mixed race children were being removed from aboriginal families very early in the picture, with the Colony of Victoria passing an act in 1869 to allow for such removals. The Stolen Generations go way back, along with the attitudes and policies that kept the practice going for so long.

Thank you, I’m fully aware of the history. All I was saying was let’s not use language like ‘famine like consequences’ due to the food being exported. Let’s call it what is was… a famine as a result of the genocide perpetrated against the Irish people by the British.

The Irish do not refer to this time as The Great Hunger anymore, we call it what is was… the oppression and genocide of the Irish by the British. Some few may still refer to ‘The Famine’ but it is now widely recognised, documented and taught in schools for what it was… a genocide.

You may think I’m silly and splitting hairs somewhat but language and history are important.

You are independent enough now to be accountable for your actions. If you see things you don't like in Australia, change it.

Btw if you are not First Nation you are more the coloniser. Or your ancestors.

Because a large proportion of them are highly successful and have STEM degrees, plus can speak English.

Sorry to disappoint but outside of Australia that IS the reputation Australia has

Unfortunately, it is all too often a misconception perpetuated and propagated by people who have never been there.

And I am also very aware of the history.

And unfortunately it is still being taught in primary schools as The Famine.

The Irish Famine, or the Great Hunger, may have been exacerbated by the export of food from Ireland to Britain, but the underlying problems were a series of very poor harvests across Europe and the nearly complete failure of the potato crop due to blight. Or so I was taught in History O level.

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Huh, no my heritage is another country that the UK colonised and is still dealing with the scars. I count myself an Australian now (even though that makes me a racist criminal apparently) like many other immigrants from around the world who call Australia home. I don't think you know what the word coloniser means.

Well that’s disappointing to hear because in both my DC primary and secondary, as well as a few others that friends DC attend, it is very clearly taught that it was a genocide.

It's interesting you blame people still here who haven't moved to Australia, when you have moved to the country. You have claimed what you like and still blame others.

The responsibility towards First Nation people and others is entirely with you, not with the British. Have some accountability.

You were given incorrect information.

The Irish were dependent on potatoes as their land was largely taken from them by the English.

Vast quantities of Irish produce was taken from
the Irish to export to the UK to feed the English, leaving the Irish to starve to death …. or emigrate.

This doesn’t surprise me. My step father is English and what he was taught in school was similarly untrue and shocking.

Using your own reasoning… do you really believe that the Irish had little more than potatoes to survive on? Do you not think that they raised cattle, sheep and pigs? Hunted game? Fished the waters? Grew other crops, fruit, vegetables?

The ‘underlying problem’, actually the entire problem, was the British and their colonisation and oppression of the Irish people. They systematically stole their land, they stole their food, banned their native tongue, persecuted those of differing religions. This was a systematic genocide of the Irish people.

Please do read further into the history because your History O level has done you a disservice.

Australia has at least officially apologised for the Stolen Generation era whereas, Britain has never apologised for slavery and in fact bailed out the slave owners. It was a huge bail out using tax payers funds, superseded only by the 2008 bank bailout in scale.

They're ancestry dates back to England. You can take a man out of England but you can't take England out of the man. I was born in the UK I am English. If you don't know your past you'll never know your future and you will keep on making the same mistakes. Look at the mess we are in with Brexit we don't learn we like to self harm ourselves. It will never affect the rich only the poor who thought their vote meant something more for them.

If you are happy with an apology in Australia, Tony Blair did do this for slavery.

I can't believe you're all arguing over who's seen as the most racist. Meanwhile, plans are afoot..