SBS. Immigration Nation - The Lucky Country #3

A three part series which was aired recently on the Special Braodcast Service (SBS) Channel from the 9th, 16th and the 23rd January 2011. This has explained my 30 years experience throughout Australian institutions, interactions with employment agencies, government officials, educational institutions, the police services, pubs, nightclubs, and the justice system. It is difficult to simply call a spade a spade when it is much easier to call it by some other name, which the vast majority of Australians like to dismiss and fudge out racial discrimination slurs. My father, being a member of the sporting elites in Samoa, in lawn bowls, having represented his country in four Commonwealth games; he was also a scholarship recipient to Saint Bedes College in Christchurch New Zeaalnd and onto Canterbury University, New Zealand, back in the early 1960s. My father did not personally experience the bigotry and prejudice at institutional level in which his illegitimate offsprings, living in Australia, would experience. Subsequently, my father was dismissive of my claims of institutional racism and ochlocratic thuggery in the streets, by the police services and the justice system ipso facto, by the same people he had assumed were civilised white Australians. My late mother would beg to differ.

However, this programme has succinctly revealed the covert prejudice as experienced by the indigenous people for over two centuries and now recently by the shock troop migrants such as my late mother my sister and I, the period in particular for myself is the early 1980s.

Finally, this programme, does call it for what it always was the convention, the experience felt by a vast majority of the socio-political conditioning processes within Australia, by finally calling a spade, a spade! Enjoy the BLACK HUMOUR!

Ia manuia le matamata!

O Tim Tufuga
i Brisbane, Australia!

Ps, I had lived in Australia for 30 years, but, it was not until 29 years later, in 2008, that I had finally, and, reluctantly, become naturalised as an Australian citizen.

Why? because, I realised that even across the Tasman, in New Zealand, where I was born, they, the riff raff Kiwis left there still, were becoming as equally as bigoted, institutionally speaking, as well.