In June 1998, One Nation, an Australian nationalist party in Queensland won 25 percent of the votes with their main lines at fighting immigration by non-whites. This has been possible where unemployment has been high and where it is easy to convince the people that immigrants are taking their jobs as it provides a convenient excuse. The good news regarding this is that in the latest rounds of State elections, the same party, just two months later won only 6 percent of the votes. Australia has also had a very racist past in which apartheid has been practiced and where indigenous Aboriginal people have lost almost all their land and suffered many prejudices. This was the institutionalizes attempt to breed out the Aboriginal people.
Aborigines are the poorest group in Australia and suffer from very much preventable diseases.
For more about these issues, you can start at these harrowing reports from John Pilger a prominent Australian journalist who has been critical of many western policies. The Sydney 2000 Olympics also brings some of Australia's racist past and present to the fore . Racism in Africa A number of nations in Africa are at war or civil war, or have been very recently, just few years after they have gained their independence from former colonial countries. While most of the conflicts have resources at their core, and involve a number of non-African nations and corporations, additional fuel is added to the conflict by stirring up ethnic differences and enticing hatred. In Zimbabwe, there has been increasing racism against the white farmers, due to poverty and lack of land ownership by Africans.