Racist rant on Newcastle intercity train

Police seek witnesses to woman’s racist Newcastle train tirade

By MEL MCMILLAN

July 3, 2014, 12:45 p.m

A still from video of the woman’s tirade on the Newcastle-bound train.

UPDATE: POLICE will prosecute Sue Wilkins, the woman who has apologised for a racist rant on a Newcastle-bound train.

Ms Wilkins has said she will seek counselling over her diatribe, which has received widespread attention on social media.

UPDATE: The woman in the video has reportedly apologised, according to a ninemsn report, saying “it’s not nice what I did to that lady”.

“It wasn’t nice to say that to her because it’s not nice when people say that to me … call me white trash and fatso,” she said.

“I know how it hurts and I shouldn’t be saying it to other people.”

“I had a rotten day, I’ve been chasing work for quite some time now. It’s awful what I said to that woman, I do agree,” Ms Wilkins said.

“There’s no excuse to rant at people like that.”

“It’s awful and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, regardless of any race.”

Earlier report

“CAN’T you get an Aussie girlfriend? You had to get a gook,” this was just part of a shameful and racist tirade delivered by a woman riding on a train bound for Newcastle.

The woman, who appears to be in her 50’s, was upset because other passengers would not give up their seat for her.

The woman first takes aim at a man who is understood to be sitting next to an Asian woman.

“Look at the bogan, he has got a gook.”

Gook is a derogatory term referring to Asians which came to use during the Vietnam War.

Her abuse then shifts to the woman.

“Why did you come to this country? This is our country.”

The woman then attempts to imitate the passenger’s accent.

Watch the tirade in full below:

 

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Update

Ranter gave false name

Newcastle mosque under attack – and the APP downplays it

On the 5th January 2012 this story appeared in the Newcastle Herald.

Newcastle Herald 5th January 2012

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There were many theories as to who committed the violence – some theories have pointed to local ratbag youths, some have blamed interstate hoods – an unlikely theory given the area’s poor public transport. Racist thickheads who cannot even find their own arses with both hands and a torch wouldn’t be too inclined to travel to Newcastle and journey to a quiet out-of-the-way suburb way off the railway line just to vandalise a mosque when there are juicier pickings for the dedicated xenophobe in Sydney or Melbourne.

NEWCASTLE’S MOST UNWANTED

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Predictably Xenophobe-in-Chief Darrin Hodges, eager for any media attention as his Facebook group micro-party subsides into irrelevancy, pipes up with his unwanted opinion right here

Australian Protectionist Party spokesman Darrin Hodges said yesterday he believed many people were ‘‘concerned about what goes on inside’’ mosques, but the attackers ‘‘could just be local drunks’’..

‘‘I’m a bit suspicious about all that,’’ Mr Hodges said.

‘‘It doesn’t mean they’re doing it because it’s a mosque.’’

The party’s Sydney-based organiser, Nick Folkes, said debate about a mosque proposal at Elermore Vale had created interest in the party.

‘‘We definitely had a lot of people wanting to know what we were about,’’ he said.

So this apparently explains the huge turnout at the APP’s anti-Muslim demo at Civic Park in 2010.

Thousands of Novocastrians don't turn up at the APP rally.

Don’t worry we have plenty of links showing exactly what the APP is all about.

So Nicky, where’s your disavowal of hate politics? Where’s your concern for the scared women and kids who were inside the building?

And where’s Nathan Smith? We thought he was your main mosque man in Newcastle.

And by the way, you really don’t have to worry about info getting out about your party either. It’s already out there. By the bucketload.

Elsewhere

Yet Another Epic Fail: “It’s A Cowardly Racist Who Hides Behind Cars.”

and all the links therein.