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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Caitlin Cassidy

Taunts, harassment and assaults: landmark report finds racism at Australian universities is ‘systemic’

Large university building at the University of Sydney
The survey of 76,000 Australian university staff and students found the rates of direct and indirect racism were highest among religious Jewish and Palestinian respondents. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Racism is “systemic” at Australia’s universities, according to a landmark report found students have mocked their Palestinian peers with shouts of “terrorism”, some students have been followed by campus security and First Nations students have been compared to “petrol sniffers” in lecture halls.

The report also found Jewish students were fearful to attend classes, with one harassed for wearing their kippa walking to class and another who described people screaming “send them to the camps” at a group of Jews on campus.

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