Not any more racist than the good ole USA - anyway, there's always two sides to the story, and one side that has to be pointed out is this:

DO you want the shocking truth?

There's a place in the world where dreadful violence is regularly inflicted upon women - rape, terrifying assault and murder.

In this place, women of a certain ethnic group are 80 times more likely to be hospitalised for assault and injury.

Many of the assaults are perpetrated by the women's husbands or partners and include being raped with wooden or metal objects, or being murdered by being repeatedly punched and struck with a saucepan, stones, a wheel rim and a wheel brace.

Or there was the case of the man who used a hose to whip his 32-year-old wife, stomping on her abdomen and dragging her naked body over rough ground, before raping her, and then bashing her with either a stick or metal pole, causing severe internal injuries, before finishing her off with a rock.

In this place, up to 20 people live in some houses and children are stressed out and neglected.

In remote areas, up to 65 per cent of children attend school for fewer than three days a week and up to 60 per cent of them fail the national early developmental index which measures a child's ability to cope with starting school.

Apart from the outrageously high rates of violence, unemployment is rife, and thousands of people are battling alcohol and gambling abuse.

Australians who were shocked over the last few months by violent attacks on women in India should be alarmed by this.

This place is in our backyard.

It is one-third the size of India, and has .0002 of India's population.

It is Central Australia, and in particular the Northern Territory.

"There is a tri-state area in the middle of Australia which is a Bermuda triangle for domestic violence against Aboriginal women," said South Australian university lecturer and anthropologist, Professor Peter Sutton.

"People don't want to know, but how about women being raped by a burning fire stick or by a star picket?

"After the incidents in India I had a stream of emails from people wanting something done about it, but there's no petitions hitting my in-tray about what goes on in Central Australia and has done so for a very long time."

"The society where this is going on is very different from the middle-class Aboriginal people that many people know.

"These are hair trigger communities where people fly into a rage in a second.

"People are under the influence of alcohol and there are beatings and stabbings.

"Resorting to physical violence is the norm."

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www.news.com.au/national/violence-against-aboriginal-women-80-times-worse/story-e6frfkp9-1226661209335

Re America - I didn't know Australia had a black PM.

^^^ still black enough for him have the (crocodile) tears running down his cheeks not so long back.

Obamas job is America not Africa, too many corrupt black men doing a grand job of running Africa into the ground without any help from the white man.

He waited till he could do nothing about it to try to do something about it.

Typical politician.

There was also the Secretary of State - Black woman and Head of the military Black man. I think they would both be black enough for you. My point is Australia is more racist than America. Actually my point is that the story will not run on the other forum because it is not anti American or anti Thai enough for the news forum. 

What's Australia 3% black?  USA is 15 to 20% people of color.  Can you imagine Australia with 20%?  See what I'm saying.  Australia has no blacks to speak of.  Think of what would happen if they actually had a black population of any size.  They come across as all PC and tolerant only because they actually have a black population hardly ever seen because there are so few of them. 

I am not going to attack the op, for fear of being labeled one of those racists he talks about, but I cannot help wondering why the topic was even started.

Of course there are racists in Australia, hell, I know some of them and they are both embarrassing and annoying. I often think the world would be better off without them and then everyone would get on and concentrate on existing and surviving.

Don't see the point in comparing the racism level in Australia to any other country either. No matter how severe it is it is too much.

This quote p**sed me off -

"There is a tri-state area in the middle of Australia which is a Bermuda triangle for domestic violence against Aboriginal women," said South Australian university lecturer and anthropologist, Professor Peter Sutton."

This Professor is one of those educated idiots who makes lots of money by merely stating the obvious.
The OP seems to be about how racist Australia is but anecdotes about the violence happening in Aboriginal communities to me is off topic, because most of these offences are usually carried out by their own people.
I think this violence is partly due their exposure to alcohol and it is not surprising that there are "dry" communities out there that try to avoid this violence.

Stan Grant made a poor choice when he used Adam Goodes as an example of an Aboriginal man being abused and insulted.
Goodes was and probably still is a <theduck> with a big chip on his shoulder and people like that in Australia will always cop it, regardless of their skin color or nationality.
Anthony Mundine is another example of a dickhead who gives his race a bad name.

cmk says his "point is Australia is more racist than America."................So what ? Doubt if his observations and opinions will make it into the text books and I for one don't feel bad about it as I don't regard myself as "one of them".