VIDEO has emerged of a group of Asian tourists being subjected to a racist diatribe by a man on a Sydney bus, just months after an ABC newsreader was racially abused on a bus.
Heidi, a female passenger on the 470 bus service at Town Hall, filmed a Caucasian male abusing a group of Asian tourists on Easter Saturday around 7:30pm.
The man is shown yelling at the tourists for over a minute, calling them "f---ing bastards", among other slurs.
Heidi, who did not want her last name published, told news.com.au that in the minutes before she started filming, the man asked the tourists why they came to Australia and demanded they leave the country.
He called them "Japanese c----s", questioned whether they "f---ing speak English" and told the tourists the Japanese had apparently bombed Adelaide and Melbourne during World War II.
"They were very taken aback, very shocked, they didn't really know how to deal with it," Heidi said.
One tourist even apologised to the man for having seemingly provoked him, which Heidi said enraged him even more.
Other passengers on the bus service failed to intervene. Several people can be heard laughing at the abuse, which Heidi said was "unacceptable".
"The atmosphere on the bus was surprisingly light, it was surprisingly casual," she said. "I was quite uncomfortable at first as the incident progressed and unfolded I became more and more outraged.
Several similar incidents of racial abuse have been reported in recent months.
In February, a bus driver told ABC newsreader Jeremy Fernandez to get off his vehicle after a passenger called him a "black c---" and told him to "go back to his country."
Mr Fernandez, who was accompanied by his two-year-old daughter, was abused by a woman who was accompanied by two young children.
The woman told Mr Fernandez she would drag him off the bus if he did not get off, but it was the vehicle's driver who ejected him from the bus......
