On my second night in Melbourne a woman screamed from a car some racist obscenity. Ironically, I thought she was being friendly and I waved and smiled back. We pointed out there was no policy against racism. Yaso wrote one, she made it more than that, it became RMIT's Cultural Diversity and Anti-Racism Policy. It had a lot of status and we are very proud of it.
International students do have to stand up, to run campaigns.
There is still no real discussion about Hanson's views. The media and the public should be more focused on questioning them. It is easier to discuss this with local students than anyone else. As soon as One Nation happened, they would want to talk with us, hear our views. When it came to racism, RMIT University was inevitably a university that made a difference.