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Reporter: David Eccleston
Broadcast Date: February 16, 2010
Reverse racism. What is it and are you a victim of it?

Have you been sacked or refused a job because you're an Anglo Saxon Australian?

While other countries are busy branding Australians as racial bigots - the truth might be far more frightening.

For example, what does the law say about an employer who hires only Indian or Chinese workers?

This year over 35,000 people who came to Australia on temporary 457 Visas will be granted permanent skilled visas to stay in the country.

For years as a nation we've been battling, and rightly so, to stop the mistreatment of minorities, but some are now saying we've gone too far.

Craig Whitney was working at a meatworks in Ipswich - he says his employers started stripping shifts from white workers in favour of cheap foreign labourers less likely to complain that they're paid less to work more.

"It felt like a crime to be White Caucasian, they definitely wanted to get rid of me," Craig said.

"It was planned all along, to get rid of the Aussies because, I believe, the Australians were too expensive to hire and if they get the cheaper labour in they cut costs."

"One to two days of work were all us Aussies were on, where the Chinese or foreigners were on forty hours a week guaranteed."

Craig wants it known he's not racist. In fact, he and his Thai wife Rattiya now run a Thai restaurant in Brisbane.

Andrew Ferguson is from the 120,000 member strong Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. His CFMEU says that because new migrants speak little English, and they've come from third world countries, they have no idea about award rates and penalties. In other words, they won't complain when they're being shafted - most are not union members.

"There is workers now complaining about wage cuts, not having work, and a threat to living standards. We can see it is only going to get worse in future years," Andrew said.

"Without a doubt there is reverse racism. There is employers that get gangs of workers from a particular language group, use them as cheap labour, exploit them and undermine labour standards."

Mr Ferguson points says its not just taking place in factories. He says it's taking place at the carwash, the supermarket and the takeaway.

Darrin Hodges represents the Australian Protectionist Party which claims the Australian way of life is under threat. The party is campaigning for a 'one in one out' immigration policy. And to protect the jobs of Australian workers.

"Reverse racism can be called positive discrimination or affirmative action and it's basically the idea that there's a sense of political disenfranchisement for the majority... who, even though they're like a majority, politically they're like a minority," Darrin said.

"If it's racist for the protectionist party to advocate on behalf of their identity, then groups like the Lebanese Muslim Association must also be racist, they're advocating on behalf of Lebanese Muslims."

"It would not be a problem if the same standards were applied to a business that wanted to employ solely white Australians."

National race discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes maintains the union movement and Mr Hodges are compromised by self serving interests. He's calling for a new multicultural policy to stamp out entrenched workplace racism and celebrate diversity.

Innes says we should get a start on making new arrivals feel welcome, valued and safe.

"Newly arriving immigrants in Australia have not been welcomed and celebrated over many, many years," Graeme said.

"People in minorities in Australia, where the persistent pockets of racism occur, are not getting a fair go."

"Indian students are not getting a fair go. The 20 per cent of people who experience race hate talk are not getting a fair go and that's why I say racism is un-Australian."

So, are the views of Darrin Hodges racist?

"No.I don't hate anyone. I'm simply here as part of the protectionist party to advocate on behalf of the majority of Australians and the majority of Australians are people like me, in appearance... So if that's racist them maybe I'm racist," Darrin said.

"We need to dispense with this idea of multiculturalism. We need to go back to the idea of assimilation where we encourage people to become a part of the general Australian society instead of saying to them, look there's an ethnic enclave that's populated by your group, you go and live there and you can be outside of the Australian mainstream society."

Two years ago in Melbourne, taxi drivers protesting. Seems very, what's the word?  homogenious, no? 
Where is the multicultural society when you need it?
Surely they were not all hired because of their superior driving skills and knowledge of the city. It certainly could not have been the personal grooming.


http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/taxi-protest-leads-to-prepaid-fares/2008/04/...

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Why is this fair-go nonsense always leveled at the majority white population? Why can't we expect these immigrants to give us a fair-go and be able to speak English before they even show up here?

I am sick and tired to the teeth of this 'fair go' cliche. It's just one of those lines used to brand every attitude or opinion that dissents from the status quo on immigration as 'un-Australian' and therefore make it unviable as a contention. We do not have any obligation whatsoever to give the rest of the world a 'fair go'. The rest of the world has no obligation to give us a fair go; it doesn't give us a fair go, as a matter of fact, because it understands that doing so is the first step towards national suicide.

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These guys need to stop trying to prove themselves in the eyes of the omnipresent progressive judge of character.  I can't stand hearing something sensible come out of the mouth of a white man and then listening to him follow it up with.. "I'm not racist though because _________!"

Shut up! Who cares if you are?! Who cares if you aren't? They are going to call you one regardless of what you say! You could have had forty different miscegnated hippy-happy-cafe-au-lait rainbow children to forty different ethnic mniority groups, then said something unpleasant about immigration and you will still be branded the second coming of Heinrich Himmler. Stop being controlled by them you moron!

pope urban 2 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2010 at 12:58pm:



Ah, but whitey owes them, don't you know. That's the beauty of it for many tinted people - when things are not working back home, that's still whitey's fault. The failings of tinted people si due to whitey exporting/imposing his ways:  colonialism, capitalism, democracy.

pope urban 2 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2010 at 2:18pm:



Well, just because a mad fvcker can play the piano, I'm not going to invite him to my party. Would you?

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aikmann4 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2010 at 8:08am:


To us it may look like corruption but DFAT is just speaking their cultural lingo. Bit of bakhshish, bit of bowing and scraping, it's all culturally sensitive. And if they get swayed by such trinkets, all the better. Throw in a dozen pocket mirrors and some gold plated combs, I heard someone saying.

More on reverse racisms. This one is from Rod Liddle, also a Spectator contributor like Melanie Phillipos, so 'progressives', beware.