Australia’s ‘White Australia’ sentiment persists beneath explicit policy abandonment.

Evidence

Now long abandoned as explicit commitment in the face of rapid demographic and cultural heterogenizing, the sentiment nevertheless bubbles beneath Australia’s dominant self-conception, despite current premier Kevin Rudd’s apology for historically abusing Aboriginals. Thus, former prime minister John Howard repeatedly denied the prevalency of widespread racist attitudes in the country, implying predictably that the beach outburst was just a matter of a few rotten eggs. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 943