The Argument Against Racism In Australia

Is Australia a fundamentally racist country at its core? this divulging deliberation has been at the forefront of Australian civil rights for decades. With Australia being first established by a association of convicts, delinquents and guards to hold it all together, it is not inconceivable nor insurmountable for some of the key conjectures of the prisoners to have been carried down hereditary to todays
“contemporary society. However the true catalyst for Australian’s non amalgamate views on races stem from the very fabric of our society, the media. Some philosophy’s argue that media is more influential then that of even the government. A dominantly right winged Writer Brad Ford speculates in many of his writings that the “Media Is More Powerful …show more content…
However media is a sizeable term and relates to many different platforms and categories of mass communication. So to say that Australian media reflects its racist agenda onto the vernal public is a incorrect and nieve statement.However the argument that the main stream media does is not entirely ungrounded and can be argued in a subjective manner. For many of the major news outlets it is a near impossible task for there bias not manifest in there reporting and journalism. With a massive 48 percent of aboriginal people believe Australia is a racist country, there must be a significant catalyst somewhere in each community in Australia. However racism takes many forms and is never just directed at one ethnic or religious group, for hate breeds hate. This is why 31. 6% of people claim to have negative feelings towards muslims according to according to a survey conducting by SBS. So with one of the pillars in our sorority being the influence of the widespread media, the question should not be is the Australian media unbiased, it should be why is the Australian media not doing more to combat these racist prejudges ingrained in the Australian