And all of this was happening in a country that seemed, institutionally at least, to have put its racist past behind it. The notorious “White Australia” immigration policy was abandoned in the late 1960’s, robust anti-discrimination legislation was enacted in the 1970’s, and innumerable efforts were made to remedy through land rights and social-justice programs the injustices experienced over many decades by indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
而所有这些都发生在一个似乎（至少在制度上）抛弃了自身种族主义历史的国家。著名的“白人澳大利亚”移民政策在1960年代被废除，健全的反歧视法案在1970年代得到通过，而大量的努力都被用于通过地权和社会公正项目等方式抚平澳大利亚土著居民和托雷斯海峡岛民数十年来所经历的不平等待遇。