Kim67

Unlike the UAE, t's actually illegal in Australia to be discriminatory in ANY way when advertising jobs. You cannot discriminate against race, religion, gender or disability. A large company like Coles wouldn't deliberately place an ad like that as they know they'd be paying out for the breach. I wonder how many of you that constantly pay out on Australians being racist have actually been here and lived in a decent suburb for longer than a week. Expats quite often behave quite differently than the majority of their countrymen do at home. And British expats that come to live here often live in areas that most normal Australians wouldn't choose to live - equivalent to me going to live in a Manchester or Brummy housing estate and then judging all Brits on the behaviour of those locals.

flares

see post #13

al dente

I have been there and am Australian and find the casual racism such of a bygone era in the UK (where, admittedly, I was a London chick). I thought talk Radio stations were especially horrific.

as an aside, the first time I took an Australian girlfriend to Brixton she was terrified.

The Dean

Norm_uk

Dang you've got me there...now the entire argument collapses because it as well no doubt

N.

Norm_uk

I work with a number of them and a lot are happy with casual racism but it is mostly just tasteless jokes rather than actual discrimination (but jokes that can and do hurt feelings, sometimes a lot). You'd need to be thick skinned to deal with them on a daily basis - they will find teeth on a hen if there's a joke at someone else's expense.

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Cypselos

I have, they are.