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Revision as of 15:32, 25 March 2021
Over the last few years series of racist public rants in Australia have been filmed and distributed online. While the victims of these rants have been men or women the perpetrators have always been women. This trend was noticed years ago and continues to the present times.
- An Asian woman who verbally attacked a middle eastern woman with broken English
- South Brisbane bus stop incident
25 February 2014
Two women cast racial slurs and assaulted an elderly man who was unable to see after his glasses were knocked off when he was attacked. The man reportedly does not identify as aborigine.[1]
4 July 2014
Sue Wilkins, then 55, was arrested after verbally abusing a caucasian man and his asian girlfriend. As well as making racist remarks to the asian woman Wilkins suggested the man must have a small penis to be having a relationship with an Asian woman.[2]
Wilkins was quoted as saying:
"Can't you get an Aussie girlfriend? You had to get a gook, you sad, poor pathetic man... Is it really that small you can't get an Aussie girl?"[3]
27 July 2016
An elderly woman told a young Australian-born man that was recording the video that he should go back to New Zealand, the country of his father. she went on to say that all foreigners should go home.[4]
24 August 2016
A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train and then assaults a man who tries to intervene.[5]
23 May 2017
A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train.[6]
15 January 2019
A Muslim woman wearing a scarf was verbally abused on a Melbourne train.[7]
20 May 2020
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-06/coronavirus-woman-racist-attack-in-melbourne/12216854
25 March 2021
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/racist-gold-coast-bus-attack-victim-complaint-girls-involved
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-03/woman-facing-charges-over-racist-tirade-on-sydney-train/5569564
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-03/woman-facing-charges-over-racist-tirade-on-sydney-train/5569564
- ↑ https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/go-back-where-you-came-from-racist-rant-captured-at-brisbane-bus-stop-20160727-gqf8ej.html
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3754567/Shocking-footage-shows-woman-launches-racist-rant-Sydney-train.html
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-23/racist-train-rant-in-sydney-caught-on-camera/8546886
- ↑ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/shocking-video-shows-alleged-racist-attack-on-melbourne-train