It is unfortunate but Australia is unmatched among Western nation in regards to historic cruelty:
- They tried to wipe out and breed out their indigenous population (something that continued to the 1960s)
- They refused to include indigenous people in the census until 1967
- Banned non-white immigration until 1975 and in conjunction with latter points, it became known as the White Australia policy (intended to make Australia all-white)
- To this day, still have clauses in the constitution giving the government the power to make race-laws for any racial group and state legislatures the power to kick off non-whites from the voting roll
- Fun fact the race-law constitution clause not only trumps the anti-discrimination laws in Australia, if I remember correctly, it was used in the 2000s.
- Maintains offshore detention camps for prisons that has been routinely deemed illegal from the International Criminal Court to countries like Iran and North Korea
Australia is a great country but they really need to have conversation about racism, they continue to deny its history and continued existence in the country.