00:00Independent politician Yingya Ghulia expected refuelling a rental car at a service station
00:08to be a simple process.
00:10Instead, he says he was blocked off from using the Bowser and a staff member asked for his
00:15ID.
00:16That really teased me off.
00:17I said this is not a question that I should be answering.
00:22The young man says it's not the first time he's been treated differently because of his
00:26race in Darwin and that he believes racism is getting worse.
00:30People just look at you by the colour of your skin or the race you're from and they just
00:36treat you as one of them.
00:38It is getting worse and even worse than ever before in Darwin.
00:43For Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner, reports of racism against First Nations people
00:48are unsurprising, even if they're from a member of parliament.
00:53Racism has really detrimental outcomes on First Nations people.
00:57It means that they have worse health outcomes, poorer educational outcomes, they're over-represented
01:03in the justice system.
01:05Some Larrakia traditional owners here in Darwin say they're unsurprised by Mr Ghulia's experiences
01:10of racism, suggesting it's become worse since Australia voted no to an Indigenous voice
01:16to parliament.
01:17The voice process unfortunately inflicted terrible racism on First Nations people and
01:21the fact that it failed as a referendum almost gave people the sense of a licence to just
01:28openly be racist.
01:30The Northern Territory Government has declined to comment and the petrol station involved
01:35has also been contacted for a response.
01:38Mr Ghulia says he's determined to push for change.
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