The biggest idiot in Australian politics is Pauline Hanson. She carried on with a load of nonsense in 1996, initially, claiming that there was racism in Australia, reverse racism.
I believe reverse racism is nonsense but racism in reverse is not the same as what people call reverse racism.
Hanson's main lot of nonsense was a belief that non-white people in Australia had privileges that white people did not. When one considers that this country did not count the First Nations Peoples in the census until 1967, sometimes you have to give a marginalized person extra things so as to allow them to have the same rights as the majority. Hanson proved herself to be a racist when she called for Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to be removed or watered down and used an offensive word to describe the Italian, Greek and other Mediterranean immigrants.
My father used to call on the shop of a Greek-Cypriot man, who had a trick. He paid my father ten dollars too much for the order, and my father said to him, "You've given me ten dollars too much." "Have I? Oh, well, it only cost me that to prove I could trust you." One day, a man came into the shop and demanded a hamburger, and racially abused the man, whereupon he said, "Come back in ten minutes, and I'll make you the best hamburger you've ever had." He did, all right, with an added fresh dog dropping! I'd have loved to have seen Hanson try that with him and get the same treatment!
What idiots like Hanson don't understand is, say, we have a prize for Aboriginal Art and entrants have to be Aboriginal, that's NOT reverse racism, nor is it racism in reverse, it is a category of art and it's an opportunity for someone who is Aboriginal to showcase their talent. What Hanson is doing is the equivalent of complaining that it's not fair that a French speaker can't enter a Japanese speaking competition!
In Australia, it's somewhat different, in that, okay, if we take Elvis Presley as an example, he had a Cherokee Indian great-great-grandparent. In America, yes, some white slave owners did force their female slaves to have sex with them and children were conceived, but in Australia, some people are finding that they have an Aboriginal great-grandparent or great-great-grandparent, as it was often something that was kept concealed in earlier times. Some people have protested, and said, "Oh, but that person looks white." I say, if the person can prove that they have Aboriginal ancestry, even if it's, say, my great-great-grandfather was a Chinese station cook and he married an Aboriginal woman who was employed as a domestic and they had a child who became my great-grandmother and she married an Irishman and they had a child, who became my grandfather, they can identify as Aboriginal. Similarly, I encountered an Aboriginal who berated a man who said he was an eighth Aboriginal and said that either he was Aboriginal or he wasn't. I said, "No, you might have two people who are each an eighth Aboriginal, one of whom takes a great deal of pride in it and identifies as Aboriginal, and another person who says, "Yeah, one of my great-grandparents was Aboriginal," and is not ashamed, but isn't particularly interested in it. Or, you have a person, who is say, a mixture of Irish, English, Indian and Aboriginal who says, "Okay, I celebrate St Patrick's Day, Christmas, I enjoy a chicken Masala and I celebrate NAIDOC Week," and there's nothing wrong with that, either.