> democracy and the idea of individual rights

lol, you need to lean about the history of minorities in Australia starting with the indigenous people and how they were treated.

Same thing with their relations with all their small neighbors and with "undesirable" immigrants.

This is a great place to start: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia

There is nothing new to this in Australia's culture, is was just aimed at the weak and vulnerable, but as the famous quote by Tucidides goes: "The tyranny Athens imposed on others it finally imposed on itself."