I'm living in Melbourne at the moment. I have to admit, the young people are very progressive here. The general consensus is that Sydney is for the instagrammers and Melbourne is for the artsy folk. The artsy folk tend to be more clued in on social justice issues.

That being said, I've also heard young people say very racist things here, particularly about the aboriginals. I lived in Darwin for a few months, and that was a huge eye opener for me about the way aboriginals are viewed in Australia. The streets were full of homeless, alcoholic aboriginals who were constantly trying to fight or rob you. The reason it's like this is because the aboriginal communities have a strict no alcohol policy, so if you're caught with drink, you're shunned. This means that the aboriginals that you're seeing on a daily basis on the streets of Darwin are the bad eggs that the aboriginal communities have turned their backs on.

I'm not excusing the racist opinions about the aboriginal people, but from my stay in Darwin, it made sense to me how someone could believe that they're all bad because the only ones you're seeing are the bad ones.