I have no issue with discrimination laws, they have to be fair and just, they need to offer protection to vulnerable people and they need to be applied equally. Racism is bad, yet there is no such thing as reverse racism, there is racism, it is as easy as that. Racial vilification laws in Western Australia were brought in when white supremacists targeted a range of people.

This white supremacist group is a bunch of morons, there is no argument here, they are pathetic bigots. I despise white supremacist groups and I have no issue with these particular laws being brought in front of Parliament to be used as a tool to stop these idiots. What I do have an issue with is these laws being used selectively.

They are laws to equalise society after all, and as I am a firm believer in equality. So we need to move to the next pertinent point, these laws need to be applied equally to be fair. So when a case arose where a young white female was physically assaulted and racially abused, do these laws not apply?

In Kalgoorlie, an outback city with a wild west reputation was a textbook example of laws not being applied equally. At the end of the day, racial abuse is racial abuse so the laws must be applied equally. An attack occurred where Melissa Blackney was sitting in a car on a street outside a house waiting for her mother when she was approached by two girls, one fourteen and one fifteen and a woman aged twenty one.

A rock was thrown at the vehicle and an altercation occurred where Ms Blackney was attacked by the group. She was kicked on the ground by the thirteen year old and given sixty hours community service and four months of intensive supervision. The charge of racial vilification was dismissed as common street language against the fifteen year old who urged her sister on as “patois of the street” by the Magistrate.

There were three people involved in an altercation with one person, who was sitting in her vehicle when an unprovoked attack occurred. According to the report Ms Blackney did not request racial vilification laws to be applied, this occurred when the police arrived and abuse was hurled at her in front of police officers. Whilst the Human Rights Commission attempted to tarnish the reputation of Ms Blackney, there is no evidence to support their claims, so they really need to pull their heads in and just deal in facts.