ANOP's report delivered in January 1985, entitled 'Land Rights, Winning Middle Australia', painted a bleak picture of a nation with scant understanding of the position of its indigenous citizens. Racism can be shown to affect virtually all aspects and areas of Aboriginal existence.
Racism is historic and entrenched, but so too is indifference.
Projections of inferiority tend to often exclude Aboriginal people from participating in the dominant society, while also serving to disallow meaningful contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. There must be social change or more young people will not meet anything like their full potential. Part of that change is immediate attention to race-relations in this State, and one of the attempts to bring about change might be through the Incitement to Racial Hatred Bill.