This is a biased article which fails to pay adequate attention to the improvements made by Australians to issues of race and culture in the past 40 years. Yes, there may be some signs of racism, but Australia's record is pretty good when compared to other nations.

Is there racism in Australia? Of course there is.
Is it any worse than any other state/culture/ethnic group? I can't say but I'd be pretty confident in saying we are less racist than many and more racist than some.
This is indisputable. What is much more contentious is that somehow this is the preserve of the 'conservatives'.
In my view racism has been just as firmly grasped by the organised Leftist Labour movement since the Chinese first appeared on the Goldfields right through to their staunch opposition to 457 visas.
Then on the the rallying cry of the social reformers - the key to all our problems is to indoctrinate the children with whatever we think is the right way of thinking... I don't need my children to be taught that they are somehow guilty of some thought crime and must apologise for the actions of their forebears. My children play with kids of other races very happily every day. My eldest daughter's best friend is of Chinese background, my youngest son's best friend is Aboriginal, my youngest daughter's best friend is of Mauritian ancestry. Do they care - not at all.

If there is any racism here, it is induced by this damn stupid multiculturalism.

It is this stupid policy that is helping to promote racists gangs. It's given us the middle eastern "appearance" gangs, the south sea islander "appearance " gangs, & a host of appearance gangs.

Idiot bleeding heart anti racists have helped develop this split in our comunity.

Yes, we had the wogs & the dagos back in the 50s, but in not too long, they became main stream. Just a glance at the names of sporting teams proves this.

I'm afraid that the resentment, growing in our multicultural society today, will probably never allow this with nany of our current immigrants.

CJMorgan, thank you " I don't think that Australia as a nation is any more racist than other comparable States these days".

Exactly, we need to keep this in perspective as all states struggle with racism, some countries cannot even by emigrated to at all for this reason e.g. Japan, South Korea.

We are so keen to shout from the rooftops that our "carbon contribution to worldwide AGW" must be measured per capita, but when it comes to racism, it has to be completely internally focussed and self loathing.

Australians struggle with racism, as do other peoples, and we do the best we can, unfortunately we just can't overcome it overnight and it may take a long time. No one believes we strive to be racist, it just takes time till other attitudes and predjudices are taught around the breakfast table. We get the basic attitudes to these things from our parents, who probably also struggled with them.

The usual cry from the left who hate to examine things without dogma and prejudice is 'racism'. That is why we have lunatics denying that 9/11 was an attack by Muslims. They prefer the label terrorist to disguise the truth and label all extremist together. If calling some things from some cultures repugnant is racist then every fair minded person on the planet is racist.

On the whole Australians are among the most tolerant people on this planet even to their own determent. I know no one who isn't happy to accommodate and share with Islanders, Indians, Pakis, Kiwis or anyone else who is prepared to live peacefully in this land. Mass racism is an invention in the minds of the left to push their failed dogmas.

I agree that we are racists but there are many countries, MOST countries in the world MORE racists.
We know that more men than women are racists, more conservatives than lefts, more adults than youngs, more unskilled and uneducated than educated and skilled, more poor than rich, more people in the towns than in the cities and more racists in the states with less migrants.
We also know that there is a big part from the lefts especialy unionists who are against the migrants and some of them racists and many of conservatives, the rich, educated or employers who are not racists and prefer more migrants.
The conservative party is more xenophobic than the ALP but in the base of both parties there is a big part of racists.
We have race discrimination mainly in work places in the private sector than in the public sector.
Most times the race discrimination is covered and it is extremely difficult for the victims to find their rights, according to Human Rights Comission of UN from 2001 to 2005 no one victim of race discrimination won in the court.
For me only an open, democratic, mass, national Organization, in full and permanent coopersation with Australian authorities, can minimize the race discrimination.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide