Warning: This story contains racist and offensive language.
When a former Indigenous employee of NSW Health complained about racist incidents in the workplace, including a colleague painting her face black at a work function and posting the image of it on the department's public Facebook page, she says she was told by a senior manager that she must be "sensitive" because of her Aboriginal heritage.
When a Victorian social worker of Lebanese heritage was asked by her direct manager at work, "Why are the Lebos destroying Coburg and Broadmeadows [in Melbourne]," he was perplexed why she had taken offence and she had to explain to him why his comment was inappropriate.
