After hearing about what the government is doing to migrants and that story about that little indigenous girl who was insulted by a grown woman, I think Australia has a racism problem. Can anyone who lives there talk about it?
There is racism, and racism is a problem, so there is a racism problem. What is not clear is how this stacks up against other countries. A few videos of someone getting shouted at on a bus come out of cities of five million from time to time. But individual instances are not very helpful compared to data. From my experience of Hobart, and hosting Asian exchange students for over a decade with my family (30+ total, mostly Chinese), over half have attempted to stay permanently, and none have reported racist incidents. My Chinese Malay friend from University experienced major racism in his home country and nine here. Amongst Australians I have lived along side, I have known several who harbored racist beliefs, although there was no real consistency, some racist against Aboriginals (including one guy who was like 1/16th Aboriginal himself hilariously), some against Middle Eastern peoples, some against Asians. More my parents generation than young folk. People from rough parts of town more than upper class neighborhoods. Few people 'believe' they are racist, which is not unusual in modern times.
Although knowing people like this, I've never personally witnessed an unambiguous racist incident or seen these people who are racist act on it in public. I saw a bogan woman who got into a minor car accident scream at the Asian woman behind her, but this is pretty par for the course for 'those people' and no racist language was used. She also screamed at me when I told her to stop yelling at the other person.
All AusGAF can provide are anecdotes. I've yet to see anything resembling stats show up in these threads. There are gaffers who have different experiences to mine and actual Asian AusGaffers you can talk to. The person saying they're afraid of visiting because of racism strikes me as pretty funny though.