An 11-year study by a collaboration of Australian universities has found 85 per cent of Australians acknowledge racial prejudice occurs in the nation and one in five has been a victim of racist verbal abuse.
For the last decade, the government hasn't appointed a full-time Race Discrimination Commissioner
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25683572-5005961,00.html

FORTY per cent of Australians believe some ethnic groups do not belong in the country with one in 10 having outwardly racist views, a new study shows.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24415273-12377,00.html

Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Research Project. A Project of the University of Western Sydney and Macquarie University - Findings by Region
http://www.uws.edu.au/social_sciences/soss/research/challenging_racism/findings_by_region

4 in 10 Australians are ‘racist’; 1 in 10 ‘racial supremacists’.
http://www.fightdemback.org/2008/09/29/racism-in-australia-study/

Study reveals Australian racist views
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=638470

Addressing Racism in Australia
Dr Yin Paradies
The costs of racism
An estimated 70% of workers exposed to racism and other forms of discrimination take time off work as a result. Racism can also affect staff turnover, recruiting and inducting replacement staff as well as overall workplace morale and productivity
Health and social costs associated with the long- and short-term consequences of racism
Costs of racism-related unemployment, early school leaving, poor educational outcomes and involvement in the criminal justice system

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:mhipynkwC2EJ:www.deakin.edu.au/dhs/documents/Peter%2520Quail%2520Oration%2520(March%25202009).ppt+Challenging+Racism+Project&cd=22&hl=el&ct=clnk&gl=au

Australian racism 'still serious'
Researchers in Australia have concluded that people are becoming more tolerant of cultural diversity.
But racism remains a problem, with one in 10 Australians believing some races are superior to others.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7641158.stm

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

“NSW topped the list with 46 per cent of survey respondents saying some ethnic groups should not be in the country.”

I knew it.

“The most often-mentioned groups were Muslims or people from the Middle East."

At least that answers my question about the Lebanese.

I think that says it all really Antonios. You will get the ones coming in whose friends and family do not think like this and so do not believe it is a reality or many making the comparison with another country.

I think the problem is the emotions that brew in the different groups that are picked on or looked upon as inferior; they feel it and respond with anger. I actually have no idea what to do about it or how to make anyone do anything.

Start in the schools teaching the children about other cultures and make it fun. Aussie seems to do this thing where their news is like half an hour and only about their own state and some sport before launching in to the weather. The world does not seem to exist.

Make Australians happier about their country and this should begin with its aboriginals. There is no pride in land without the people that came with it.

Queensland just won their match, that’s cause there’s more Kiwi’s living there aye.

UN 'concerned' over suspension of Racial Discrimination Act
UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination chairman Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah has written a two-page letter to the Government requesting a progress report on Kevin Rudd's promise to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act, which was suspended by the Howard government.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25209009-5006790,00.html

Rights record under scrutiny in UN seat bid Daniel Ziffer
March 22, 2009
PRIME MINISTER Kevin Rudd's dream of winning a UN Security Council seat might be dashed by international concerns about Australia's record on human rights
http://www.smh.com.au/world/rights-record-under-scrutiny-in-un-seat-bid-20090321-94z4.html

Amnesty reports to UN on Australia’s human rights failures
“Many of the gaps in Australia’s protection of human rights, identified by the UN Human Rights Committee in its last periodic review, still have not been addressed,” Dr Seth-Purdie said. “If the Rudd government is serious about meeting its international obligations it should take immediate action to withdraw law and policy that subject Indigenous Australians to racial discrimination.”
http://www.amnesty.org.au/images/uploads/news/HR_Committee_briefing.pdf

UN gives Australia one-year deadline on human rights
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has given the Australian Government a year to live up to its international human rights obligations with respect to the Northern Territory Intervention, mandatory immigration detention, anti-terrorism laws, and violence against women.
http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/blogs/top_stories/archive/2009/04/06/un-gives-australia-one-year-deadline-on-human-rights.aspx

more useless tax payer funded propaganda with no real solutions. If you don't know why most Australians including new Australians have a problem with Lebanese Muslims you have to be pretty ignorant. We don't need the 'rights under the UN rubbish'. We need immigrants to integrate and contribute to the land that our soldiers died for. Thankfully most do that but many from Lebanon only contribute in that we need more tax funded Policeman and Prisons.

We have been here before you and I AS.
I think you in all probability are a good bloke.
But is in your view this research finding anything we did not know already.
Have the findings been any different than they would be in any country in the world?
Including the one of your birth?
Or any group race or creed?
Has it ever crossed your mind that most people dislike racism?
Or that too often, far too often miss understanding sees racism blamed?
Minoritys can be racist.
Some of your statements over you post history seem to state Aussies are just maybe more racist than others.
Bloke you and I need to understand,sometimes we are wrong.
Some ideas we have do not come with written garantees others will agree with us.
To chalenge us you and me, is not racism, my people have their faults so do yours.
Years ago, on a building site, I was told by some of your country men they did not want me learning a bit of their language , some of what they said to one another they said was private.
Some of it was, and rather cowardly too.

Hey Runner, I kinda thought maybe Antonios was seeing what solutions might be around. But then the awareness alone may be useful. On OLO I notice the odd jab at Muslims, not sure why or I’m not sure why their crimes due to their religion are seen as worse than all the other crimes because of all the other religions.

Many different countries contributed to wars in the world to keep this countries freedom.

Belly I remember looking it up once and apparently minorities can’t technically be called racist. And I do get what you mean, seen it lots myself. But maybe those Greeks weren’t happy, maybe they felt isolated and discriminated against. It is more than hurtful as a guest to have many of your hosts children be mean to you or look at you like they want you gone.

Aussie media seem rife with this race being picked on by this other race; even I have stopped being shocked by it. In that thread about the Indian students it appeared to be pretty messy. Maybe the immigrants get here and decide that to assimilate they need to choose which other race to not like immediately.[smile]

But to answer your question I think Antonios is pointing out that here we apparently do not have enough people that dislike racism.