Thanks to my older brother John, in worse health than me, who emailed me about this story that people in the “more civilised eastern states” (as John describes us), may not have heard about. Today, I will let the story speak for itself.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/australias-most-racist-college-st-marks-college-in-adelaide-under-fire-for-offensive-costumes/news-story/3371b2b56162c0c07c7aa3b3d418f80e
“Happy Hanukkah from Auschwitz!!” reads the image caption. The photo, taken at an event organised and hosted at the elite St Mark’s residential college, features two recent students from the University of Adelaide wearing striped concentration camp-style pyjamas, caricature hook noses and a yellow Star of David pinned on their chests. The students are also depicted wearing mock shackles with prisoner identification numbers marked on their inner arms, simulating those tattooed on Jewish concentration camp victims during the Holocaust. Other photos, also taken at St Mark’s College — and unearthed as part of a news.com.au investigation into university college culture — feature a student dressed as Adolf Hitler and others doing the Nazi salute. The images are not from one party. They’re from a number of similar events hosted at the college year after year. Students who attended this year’s Orientation week in February say a whole table of students attended an evening event dressed as Adolf Hitler. “There were about 10 people, all boys, who came dressed wearing swastika armbands and moustaches,” says a student who wished not to be named, fearing reprisals. “There was basically free licence to choose whatever costume you want. I can’t believe that others could stand by and not step in. It baffles me.”