Australia’s leading Anglo-Celtic advocacy group has called on the Race Discrimination Commissioner to apologise for publishing a statement saying White people cannot experience racism.
Indian-born bureaucrat Giridharan Sivaraman, who is paid $408,000 a year in taxpayer funds by the Australian Human Rights Commission, included the claim in a Common Myths & Misconceptions About Racism guide that accompanies his National Anti-Racism Framework.
An explainer in the guide produced by Mr Sivaraman states: “Whilst White people can experience multiple forms of discrimination or prejudice based on gender, sexual orientation, ability, age, or class; they cannot experience racism.”
Australia’s Indian-born Race Discrimination Commissioner is asked about his National Anti-Racism Framework that states White people can’t experience racism.
He gives a non-answer that endorses a far-left definition of racism where White people can only be perpetrators. pic.twitter.com/aPXCFt0RDD
— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) October 9, 2025
The British Australia Community (BAC) has now called on the Commissioner to apologise, make a correction, and establish an independent inquiry into the AHRC’s report production process, among other steps.
President Harry Richardson said the statement about White people was “an invidious generalisation about an entire race and as such is clearly racist” and said the BAC expected the apology within seven days.
“The statement also conflicts with Australia’s anti-discrimination legislation, risks eroding public confidence in the AHRC, and undermines the idea that Australia’s government bodies are fair and unbiased,” he said.
Mr Richardson also referred to a Senate Estimates hearing earlier this month where Mr Sivaraman was asked whether he agreed with the statement in the explainer, noting that the Commissioner responded with a “verbose answer about power and structural racism”.
“This stance is at odds with Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and the AHRC’s proclaimed principles of dignity, equality and mutual respect,” he said.
🚨 PRESS RELEASE: The British Australian Community calls for Race Discrimination Commissioner @GiriDSivaraman to Apologise. pic.twitter.com/vW8vaB1Qz7
— British Australian Community (@Brit_Aus_Com) October 20, 2025
He added that if the Commissioner did not apologise, amend or withdraw the explainer, publish the evidence base and definitional framework underpinning the racism report, provide a written justification, and establish an inquiry, the BAC would consider further steps.
In an interview last year Mr Sivaraman declared that antiwhite racism was not a major problem in Australia, and that the real issue was too many White people in positions of power.
He also begins his speeches with the far-left ahistorical anti-Australian slogan “always was, always will be” and rails against “White privilege”.
Header image: Left, Mr Sivaraman in Senate Estimates (Parliament). Right, at the launch of his National Anti-Racism Framework (AHRC).
