Is Australia a RACIST Country? 🇦🇺

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Racism in Australia - Exploring the Complex Question: Is Australia a Racist Country?
In this thought-provoking video, I delve into a subject, such as the voice referendum voice to parliament, and the Israel / Palestine / Gaza conflict, that has sparked countless discussions and debates: Is Australia a racist country? 🇦🇺
Join me as I examine this complex topic from multiple angles, considering historical contexts, contemporary issues, and personal experiences and address incidents of racial discrimination. My goal is not to make sweeping judgments but to encourage open dialogue and understanding. No country is free from racial issues, but how can we work together to promote unity, equality, and social justice? Let's engage in a respectful and constructive conversation about the perceived state of racism in Australia.
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@OutandAboutwithCraig 7 ай бұрын

We have racist people in Australia, but we are definitely not a racist country. We are one and we are many. Last Saturday night Australia voted against division. Peace, love and respect makes this country one of the best places to live in the world.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely mate. 👍🙂❤

@PFitz539 7 ай бұрын

We have to stop lying to ourselves.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Compared to many other countries, it IS a great place to live (Although not AS great as it once was, in my humble opinion)

@PFitz539 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack Money underpins our worlds stability. Look how people turn when the going gets a little tough. If or when an economic collapse occurs, western countries will be scary places. No culture underpins us because money does. 😬

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

True, but this and other conversations happening in the comments section (That I'm finding it hard to keep up with), kind of negates the more simple point that I was trying to ask in my video - It wasn't intended to _deeply_ be about the referendum, nor the mention of current global conflicts etc 👌

@privatename6891 7 ай бұрын

The racists voted yes. The vast majority voted no to racism.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

I think it's _likely_ a mix of a lot of things; mostly (I reckon anyway) the simple fact, that we did not KNOW, in ANY written form of proposed * legislation* , WHAT it _could_ entail to vote for the change to the constitution...Other factors MAY of course, have also been a factor.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

📌Absolutely NO offence is intended to those who may have a differing opinion. Please engage in a respectful and constructive conversation about the perceived state of racism in Australia. *Verbal abuse or harassing comments towards others will be deleted, and the poster of same may be blocked.

@Will-nb8qk 7 ай бұрын

It’s definitely a difficult topic to address. It’s easy to run with a one dimensional take but the one dimensional take just isn’t you. 😂 It will blow over for us but obviously not the aboriginal peoples for a long time to come.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Yes, definitely; I don't like to make videos on ANY topic, where I can fully delve into ALL aspects, but to do so, would be near impossible, as there ARE so many dimensions to look at - all VERY complex, so I just brushed over the issues, in favour of the general question: IS Australia a 'racist' country?

@priceprice_baby 7 ай бұрын

The idea that a no vote was a vote against rules dividing the country by race was an idea put out by Dutton & co that a lot of people believed, but has little merit. The laws dividing by race already existed thanks to section 51 subclause xxvi allowing the government to make different laws based on race. It's always existed. All the Yes voters were trying to do is let the indigenous people have an official body to advise the parliament on their opinion when the parliament chose to make such laws. It wasn't about giving any new powers to indigenous people. But the heavily LNP biased media made a lot of people believe otherwise

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

And therein lays the problem (NOT that this video was about the vote, it and other 'events' referenced, were examples of HOW the world perceived Australia, via the media); there *WERE NO CLEARLY DEFINED* _LEGAL_ definitions, of WHAT 'the voice' WOULD entail. I _respect the right of choice_ made by ALL voters actually; no matter what they voted for.👌

@anthonywillis7634 6 ай бұрын

@@priceprice_baby interestingly the no vote never stopped one ounce of funding going to Indigenous people it just stopped Indigenous people from having a real say in how it is to be used. The no vote was actually a vote to continue with the same wasteful expenditure which doesn’t take into consideration local issues of Indigenous communities as per told by their elders and community leaders.

@PaulD927 7 ай бұрын

Saying NO to a government idea doesn't make us racist. If the government wants it, it probably isn't in our best interest.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

...If there's ONE 'good' thing, that seems to have come from the 'covid' period (not that the W.H.O. has bothered to declare it over, *of course* !); is that it _feels_ like more people that weren't *already* awake, have come to justifiably *mistrust* governments (at last) 😉👌(BUH!!)

@mpuppybreath 7 ай бұрын

Sounds like a complicated issue. Thanks for weighing in. It's is too easy to form opinions without information or reason.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

It SURELY IS, on both main topics I mentioned - sadly, the rest of the world always relies on TV media as correct information, but that very often isn't the case. ❤

@mpuppybreath 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack truth!

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

...It's extremely rare!

@sternwho3932 7 ай бұрын

$480 million flushed down toilet but no consequences for pm

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

👀

@violet-kittychick 7 ай бұрын

It took a lot of courage and spine to make this video and like I respect you for that!! I have seen things.. been a part of things.. soul shattering things.. life altering things.. from a very early age!! One of the hardest things I have learned is to forgive and I have done that.. but I can not forget!! Like I have seen how dark and dirty people can get and what they will do if it like truly suits them.. while the innocent pay for the rest of our lives for what they did!! I fear the day the conflicts that hold humanity back comes here to our shores or land. I fear people who are wholesome and innocent being exposed to any or some of the stuff I was exposed to. I know they won't survive it simply because they can not comprehend it or how others could do such things to each other!! I wish for and dream of a time where humanity accepted we are all one and all these conflicts or acts that shatter souls and break hearts ended!! I like love Star Trek.. because humanity seemed to have gotten there in that fantasy world and every day I wish we got there too hey!! My heart will always go out to every single innocent person who suffers injustice or mistreatment despite their gender, race or religion!! I now live in a place that is a 'safe refugee resettlement zone' in Australia. We were not asked.. we never voted.. we were like just told.. so it happened!! Now.. like we have the worst crime rate per person where we live and we also have the worst substance abuse problem per person to match the other!! We all live in absolute fear of the never ending crime and our police are overwhelmed where they just fail to cope or function with all of the crime!! Like if I was so lucky to go and be able to live in another country.. I would adore them for taking me in.. I would like want to adopt everything about them in gratitude.. I would want to keep me.. who I was.. but I would also want to change to suit my new home!! Sadly this is not what happens here.. we take all these people in and they hate us.. they bring their baggage with them and then when we bring in other people they hate them and we don't understand why.. but we are then outsiders and neither will fill us in and so we end up with small groups who cling to themselves and the brewing pot of conflict stirs.. slowly boiling.. always boiling away.. then you get scenes like at the Sydney Opera House.. one was not invited but made it all about them and those who were invited were told to bugger off and go home and they had 'no voice'!!

@secondchance6603 7 ай бұрын

These people are so passionate about the country they, 'fled' that they don't want to go there and fight for its freedom.

@violet-kittychick 7 ай бұрын

@@secondchance6603 I wonder who will stay in this 'safe space' they call Australia hey!!

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Very well said, thank you. I WAS indeed, very reluctant to make this video, but in doing so, I hope that my point came across without being too biased - I agree, how WONDERFUL it would be, to smply have PEACE in the world! Your points stary into another rhelm, that I won't touch on right now, but I do know for a fact, from working closely with people in my past and the AFP, that many in those circustances DO hate Australia - All I can ask myself then, is WHY did they want to come here? 😥❤

@barbarabof 7 ай бұрын

Many people in many countries are racist, growing up i met a few

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Exactly, but it's our collective ability to at least 'get along' without fights nor abuse of 'different' to ourselves races, that matters most.👍❤

@barbarabof 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack Totally agree, people fear what they don't know, so education and getting to know different cultures is key🐨

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely! It's commonsense, but as I've always said "commonsense ISN'T very common!"

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

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@jb2760 7 ай бұрын

Must have hit the algorithm lovely Australians! Love from USA.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Pity it's for such an aweful topic. Love in return from Australia 👌🙂👍

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Voice Referendum Live Results and Updates;www.abc.net.au/news/elections/referendum/2023/results?filter=all&sort=az&state=all&party=all

@LuckkyCanuck 7 ай бұрын

I worked in remote Aboriginal communities around Cape York for a number of years. Then I moved to Sydney. Generally the people (always well-intentioned, poorly informed white people) who are loudest about what we ought to be doing for the Aboriginal people, have never been to their communities, never spoken to them and, often, never even met an aboriginal person. I think its very likely that a large proportion of people in remote communities had no idea what this referendum was about nor the implications one way or another. And that's not said to denigrate anyone, they just live and think very differently to urbanite Australians (which is a beautiful thing). There are many substantial issues converning the Aboriginal people that need thoughtful, genuine consideration and complex solutions. But, in this case I think Australia was right not to enshrine more division into it's constitution. Much love from Canada to my Aboriginal brothers and sisters in Cape York and beyond.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Yes; very well defined. Love back to you guys, from Australia. 👌👍🙂

@brettanthonypalmer2956 7 ай бұрын

EVERYONE has a say (a voice) ......The problem (for the people) is that nobody is actually listening to Black Fella , White Fella and all the new Fellas

@Will-nb8qk 7 ай бұрын

You get some good commentary in these places. 😂 Someone mentioned that we all hate politicians unless these politicians are servicing Aborigines. 😂 Every other time we believe the people not the politician. I find it a little intriguing

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

...Given that most politicians couldn't lay straight in bed - I'll take trusting THE PEOPLE _ANYTIME_ mate! 👌👍

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Because the governments, of just about ALL countries, doesn't give a shit about the citizens; just money and power...THAT hasn't changed for, well; EVER!

@PhillipMortlock-yt8wc 7 ай бұрын

Who committed the stolen generation ? That's why most Aboriginal's are smart and know you don't accept a voice from your oppressor. I'm conservative and don't hate Aboriginal's and they don't hate me for I am you are we are Australian.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

👍❤

@Numptee86 7 ай бұрын

Well said by the way!!!❤

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@gracedp2772 6 ай бұрын

Every country has people who disagree. That's because we are human. It has nothing to do with colour as every colour also is racist in their own way when they are in the majority. We are all one race, it's the human race. With a great variety in looks and cultures. I am Dutch but have lived in Australia since 1981. In the Netherlands we have been occupied so often that it's not funny. Just as in the UK they have had invasions from Vikings and many others. That's a worldwide phenomenon. Travel around the world and read history and you will see that people groups have often been displaced or have displaced others. We cannot change the past but we can try to live in harmony NOW.

@SteveMack 6 ай бұрын

*I agree.* Thanks for your comment. 👍❤

@CobaltBSS 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video Macky wacky! you look very cute today. I believe that no was the way to go as all the indigenous Australians I know said it would be unfair for them to have any sort of different view then any other Australian. This was all pointless tbh

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Just STEVE will do nicely, thanks. It's good to see actual THINKING going on, in all sides of the debate...That's always a healthy way to deal with ANY issue. 👌👍I just wonder how much BETTER the $364 - 450 million COULD have been far better SPENT!?

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 5 ай бұрын

👍🏻 great video

@SteveMack 5 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@ElviraSongalla 7 ай бұрын

My husband relative an Australian cetizen I am happy they're happy family work so hard build family in Australia.thanks for the filmed.take care friend

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Thank you - I was quite nervous about making this one, as I try not to offend anyone with different views. ❤

@paulfri1569 7 ай бұрын

Define racism? Great points 👉

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Yep; a lot of things are open to interpritation, which is EXACTLY why legal documents are so precisely worded. 👌👍

@jopeseru9303 7 ай бұрын

YES 💯

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

👍👌

@Numptee86 7 ай бұрын

Xenophobia and racism are different....i think thats the more accurate word for it

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Great point! ARE they though?👍

@Will-nb8qk 7 ай бұрын

We’ve had a history of hating on wogs…I mean Greeks, Italians etc😂 We eat Xenophobia for entrees ! 😜

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

😂😜😉

@anthonywillis7634 7 ай бұрын

I personally don’t think it was based on any notion of concern for division, that was just the guise or excuse not to support the referendum. My family ran with the “oh they are going to take our houses” line. It was hilarious listening to my father carry on but my mother telling him to grow a brain. haha. Sorry mate, I’m about being honest on this purely because of the bloody embarrassment I feel that we couldn’t just look after a people who lived here for 65k years, who make up 4% of our population and are doing it bloody tough broadly. It’s a disgrace tbh.

@Will-nb8qk 7 ай бұрын

I agree 😞

@wattlebough 7 ай бұрын

There’s also the belief that the reason the Australian Aboriginals are where they are is because successive governments have been incompetent, and the belief is that The Voice will be little more than a new layer of bureaucracy like the failed ATSIC. Between 1990 to 2005 ATSIC did what for increasing life expectancy, increasing educational outcomes, reducing incarceration rates? ATSIC 2.0 with Constitutional permanence would have the High Court of Australia licking their lips. Have you considered this? Asking Australians to vote on a document hardly anyone has read to change a system that our state education systems have completely failed to educate generations of Australians on is farcical. The only thing that saved the polity from being bogged down in a legal morass is the skepticism among the Australian people that the Parliament is competent to implement these changes to the system without completely ballsing it up at the expense of the 3% of Aboriginal people and the remaining 97% of citizens- half of which only arrived in the country since 1970.

@ILikeTrains324 7 ай бұрын

I think you're misunderstanding the people who voted no. The vast majority of us believe affirmative action is racist and discriminatory. The majority of Australian's are colour blind, as in we do not like to legislate based on race, but rather class. We would rather vote yes to help the poor and unfortunate in the country, which would coincidentally help aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders. We believe reverse racism is simply fighting racism with racism. We are one. We are many. This voice would have been a constitutional statement that we are *two*. That is why the majority of people that voted no said they were voting no to a separation, division, and discrimination of the races in Australia, of which there are *many*. It isn't black and white. We are a multicultural nation. I myself am italian, and have my own generational issues because of the situation my grandparents came from when they moved here. I wouldn't vote yes for an italian voice, but i would vote yes to help the downtrodden and poor.

@secondchance6603 7 ай бұрын

@@ILikeTrains324 Your country dodged a bullet unlike us here across the ditch. $55 billion has been given to Maori who are still 'suffering'. Not one cent has been used to help them but the handouts keep on getting handed out.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

No doubt there were a LOT of reasons individuals decided to vote the way they chose. Most EVERYONE, no matter what 'race', IS doing it pretty tough these days - helped not very well by our governments that COULD do simple things to ease the burden, like drop the tax on fuel for one thing, to a FAR lower level! - Prices go insane, world-wide, mostly for complete bullshit reasons!❤

@mralexsambo 7 ай бұрын

The referendum was racist itself and costed us so much money. If you want to devide a nation and have a group of people above the law then you don't believe we are all the same. I would have voted NO too, I can't cos I am a permanent resident not a citizen, you are lucky I can't vote coz I like Pauline Hanson 😂

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

That's the most likely reason the NO vote won. I like her too, overall, although I have a mate who was IN that party for a while, an unfortunately saw the dodgy side of things, that all parties do.

@mralexsambo 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack are you saying that all politicians are corrupt on some level? Oh my... Never thought about it 🤣🤣🤣

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

"Oh NO - Perish the thought!" 😅😂😜😉

@PFitz539 7 ай бұрын

We need more referendums. The cost is small for the opportunity to have a say on bigger issues.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

At ~$400,000,000, I think the money could be MUCH better spent! - At least they should have had 4 items to vote on, as they once did.

@YamaJafary-jo5vg 6 ай бұрын

Of course

@SteveMack 6 ай бұрын

Can you define racism?

@glen646 7 ай бұрын

Spoken just like 90% of Australians would say it. It's called the sensible centre, made up of honest, hard working family orientated people, many of whom come from different countries but share the same values listed above and call Australia home. Am I racist ? No. Do I wish for more Vetting of who comes to live here, damn right, or that 10% that don't share our values will become much larger and our identity will be lost, as I fear it may have already.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Totally agree. 👌👍

@EasyThere 7 ай бұрын

Culture ain't race brother and I'll criticize it as much as I like. You can judge a culture by how much suffering it creates and/or alleviates. Seems the sins of the father are only laid on the shoulders of white sons. No one is demanding reparations from the slaver nations of Africa that still exist to this day. Some of them are quite wealthy. England should pay the Scotts and Irish. The Moors should pay reps to Spain, Italy and Portugal...you could do this for all of recorded history. The worst thing we did to Aboriginal people was to advance them 10,000 years technologically in a few decades. It broke them.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Good point - culture IS another aspect, but I didn't wish to dwell too heavily on anything in this video. Sadly but correctly; MOST countries WERE invaded at some point or another in the history of the world - by that token; maybe England should also pay the Romans and Vikings?

@EasyThere 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack "maybe England should also pay the Romans and Vikings?" And vica versa sir.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

...I'm not sure that a Viking council still exists TO pay...Is there a reasonable point though, where any country should stop paying reparations towards the 'original' occupants and it's distant relatives?

@beasrj 7 ай бұрын

Certainly not

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

👍

@SewerPossum 7 ай бұрын

We are gaslit by leftists and activists but try living in any of the countries we accept immigrants from.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

I agree. 👍

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 5 ай бұрын

@@SteveMackour foreign minister is a foreigner 🤠 wasn’t even born in Australia.. and Albo is entitled to an Italian passport which puts him in breach of section 44 of the constitution 🤠

@djburnette87 7 ай бұрын

I don't believe most of your assertions.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

...I've ALWAYS tried to be as _accurate as I can_ , in *all* of my 1000+ videos, however: I respect your right to disagree. 👌

@chapmansbg 7 ай бұрын

You must be from WA because everywhere else you can drink in public.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

No, I'm in Brisbane, but doing a state by state check before I finished editing, sees an overall 'no drinking from open containers of alcohol' (and in other circumstances), as a more blanket law.

@chapmansbg 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack You can drink in public in Brisbane, there are restrictions/dry zones and restrictions related to liquor licencing. The only place in Australia where there is a blanket ban on drinking in a public place is WA all other states and territories vary and are mostly related to specific dry zones and or liquor licencing restrictions ie outside a licencesed venue. If that is wrong I would love to know where you are getting your information from as I am unable to confirm what you are saying.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

Was just a throw-away remark really, but technically: Some local government by-laws prohibit the consumption of alcohol on designated streets, parks, and other areas within their jurisdictions. Consumption of alcohol on public transport property and vehicles is not allowed. Persons under 18 years cannot drink alcohol on licensed premises under any circumstances.

@chapmansbg 7 ай бұрын

@@SteveMack Yeah mate, public transport is out of the question, so are some of the licensed places. There are some stricter places like WA but overall it is legal in Oz to drink in public as long a you are not a dickhead.

@SteveMack 7 ай бұрын

In Qld (my home state) the Government stipulates that 'You can’t drink alcohol in a public place in Queensland, unless the area is a licensed premises or is declared as a wet area. You can be issued with an on-the-spot fine for drinking alcohol in a public place.' - There are also limitations in the Northern Peninsula Area. My point was however, 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do'; if people come to Australia (as is the case in most any other countries); they are expected to follow the law of that country. In fact, it forms part of the Australian Citizenship Pledge: “From this time forward, under God, I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey.”