Australia’s far-left Race Discrimination Commissioner has released a report on racism at universities that is biased against White Australians and recommends they be replaced by ethnic minorities in the tertiary sector workforce.
The Indian-born bureaucrat, who collects a taxpayer-funded salary package of $408,000 a year but calls Australia “stolen land”, wants Australia Day moved and says White people can’t experience racism, unveiled the Racism@Uni report with Education Minister Jason Clare in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Mr Sivaraman called the report “harrowing reading” and said it showed “racism is deeply embedded within our universities”, and delivered 47 recommendations, including one demanding more funding for the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct more reviews.
The report used a far-left definition of racism that includes “harassment, abuse, humiliation, microaggressions, violence and intimidation” in regards to “institutional and structural arrangements that produce inequity and privilege dominant White, Western norms and systems that may dehumanise, exclude, or marginalise individuals, groups, cultures and religions”, and as a result did not address racism against White Australians.
The Australian Human Rights Commission released a report called Racism@Uni today, presented by far-left Indan-born Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman.
Sivaraman doesn’t believe White people can experience racism, which is reflected in the report. pic.twitter.com/FLNHsNIfSt
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The report also excluded White people from Africa, and White South Africans specifically, from sections on racism against Africans and members of the African diaspora, and while it mentioned that 62% of “southern Europeans” claimed to experience racism, the group is not defined and does not appear elsewhere in the report.
In his Commissioner’s foreword Mr Sivaraman also criticised some Australian universities for being “established as colonial institutions” under the White Australia Policy, and complained that they weren’t “designed” for foreigners.
“They were built upon a foundation of racism and systemic exclusion, starting with the First Peoples (sic) of this land,” he wrote.
“Just as some Australian universities weren’t designed for First Peoples (sic), they also weren’t designed for people perceived as being outside the dominant colonial culture.”
The report contained a “lived experience” section including accounts from a survey completed by 76,000 staff and students, and focus groups involving 185 people from ethnic minority groups.
The accounts included “racism” complaints about allegedly being ignored, having names mispronounced, being excluded in group assignments, seeing White people and Asian people sitting at different tables, and finding it difficult to do group work with people from other backgrounds.
In one grammatically incorrect complaint, an Indian student claimed a professor accused them of buying an assignment or using AI to write it, and in another an aboriginal student complained about being told they “couldn’t use indigenous knowledges (sic) or standpoint in my PhD because there was no such thing as them”.
Other aboriginal students complained about an Indigenous Studies course being “taught and owned by White people”, and that learning about the supposed harms of colonialism was “retraumatising”.
A Middle Eastern staff member complained about a build-up of so-called micro-aggressions that included “saying someone had a funny accent”, an Asian staff member complained that student feedback was “gendered, sexist and racialised”, another non-White staff member said her university’s anonymous feedback system “reproduced structural racism”, and a Jewish participant complained that it was “systemically racist” that most people on their university’s council were White.
Another aboriginal participant complained that being asked how to recognise and respect cultural diversity forced them to bear “cultural load”, a student complained about racism support psychologists being White, and a Muslim staff member said it was racist that she had to use her own personal leave to take time off on Muslim holidays, but not Christmas.
In addition to asking for more funding, the report recommended the government establish a Racism@Uni working group, all universities develop anti-racism plans, and the Racial Discrimination Act be amended to “include a positive duty to prevent racial discrimination in workplaces”.
Seven out of the 47 recommendations related to reducing the number of White staff and management by creating a “diverse leadership and workforce”, including a government requirement that universities set “workforce racial diversity targets” and fund pathways for “staff from diverse racial backgrounds” to get into academic and leadership roles.
The report also recommended universities do the same, in addition to setting “measurable targets for workforce diversity at senior levels, with reporting to university councils”, and “targeted initiatives to improve attraction, progression and retention measures” for non-White staff.
Header image: Mr Sivaraman and Mr Clare unveiling the report (Jason Clare).
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