Racist public rants in Australia

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.

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.

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?"

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.

24 August 2016

A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train and then assaults a man who tries to intervene.

23 May 2017

A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train.

15 January 2019

A Muslim woman wearing a scarf was verbally abused on a Melbourne train. The name of the woman that attacked her has apparently not been released. She is described only as a "39 year old Clayton woman."

20 May 2020

Jennifer Li was verbally abused with rascist taunts by an unknown woman. The woman was quoted as saying:

"Why don't you f***ing go back to China and keep your disease over there, you f***ing idiot," the woman said.

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