Direct racial discrimination means unfair treatment on the basis of race.
Race includes colour, descent, ethnic origin or nationality.
This also applies if you are treated unfairly because of the race of your relatives, friends or work colleagues. An Aborignial couple, Jack and Deb, wanted to rent a house advertised by a real estate firm. The agent told them that the owners refused to let it to them because they were Aboriginal. Both the owner and the real estate firm directly discriminated against Jack and Deb because of their race. Indirect racial discrimination is treatment that appears on the surface to be fair or neutral, but which has an unequal effect on people of a particular race.