Drivers flying Australia Day flags from their cars have been surveyed by researchers in the city of Perth to find out how ‘racist’ they are. According to an article in Melbourne newspaper The Age:

…research from the University of WA [Western Australia] found drivers with Australia Day flags are likely to be more racist than those with un-adorned cars.

UWA sociologist and anthropologist Farida Fozdar and a team of assistants surveyed 513 people at last year’s Australia Day fireworks on the Swan River foreshore.

One in five said they had attached flags to their cars to celebrate Australia Day.

Professor Fozdar said 43 per cent of those with car flags said they believed the White Australia Policy had saved Australia from many problems experienced by other countries, while only 25 per cent without flags agreed.

And 56 per cent of people with car flags feared the Australian culture and its most important values were in danger, compared with 34 per cent of those without flags.

Professor Fozdar said 35 per cent of those with flags felt people had to be born in Australia to be truly Australian, while 23 per cent believed that true Australians had to be Christian, compared with 22 per cent and 18 per cent respectively for the non-flag group.

“Very clear statistical differences in attitudes to diversity between those who fly car flags and those who don’t, show that flag waving − while not inherently exclusionary – is linked in this instance to negative attitudes about those who do not fit the ‘mainstream’ stereotype’,” she said.

What nonsense, and what an insult to patriotic Australians celebrating their national day.

Watch this video — also from Perth — and decide for yourself whether or not some of their concerns about immigration are justified:

(Hat tip: OzConservative.)