'I'm not sorry': Indigenous woman finds vile note left on her car

The victim is a Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara woman, who has "worked all her life and adopted kids from all cultures", according to the online post.

A note reportedly left on a woman's car at Westfield Chermside Shopping Centre in Brisbane.

A note reportedly left on a woman's car at Westfield Chermside Shopping Centre in Brisbane. Source: Twitter

Instead of leaving a name and number, a motorist who hit an Indigenous woman's car in Brisbane left a racist note saying: "Happy Australia Day. I'm not sorry as well". 

The note, which is doing the rounds on social media, was first posted to Imgur by a user claiming the woman whose car was hit was their grandmother.
Left on the woman's car windscreen at a Chermside shopping centre car park, the note read: "I'm writting [sic] this note because I hit your car! You have an Aboriginal sticker on your car so the government probs [sic] paid for it out of my taxes."
The writer goes on to say "Happy Australia Day" and "I'm not sorry as well". The comment comes 
The user's post said their grandma was a "proud Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara woman", who is also battling cancer.

"She's worked all her life and adopted kids from all cultures", and the grandmother was “ashamed this treatment is still happening," the post said.

No name or contact number was left on the note, but it was signed: "2019, One Nation".


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Published 18 January 2019 11:43am
Updated 18 January 2019 2:49pm
By Charlotte Lam


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