Australian real estate agent suspended after racist email to Indian tenant
economictimes.indiatimes.comracist email to a former Indian tenant in which said she hoped migrants would not turn Australia into «the filth that is India».
Bronwyn Pollitt, a Perth-based real estate director, wrote to Sandeep Kumar in May 2021 after he disputed a cleaning bill deduction from his security deposit, news.com.aureported on Saturday.
The email was submitted to The State Administrative Tribunal in Western Australia, which heard that Pollitt compared Australian living standards and quality of life to the «overcrowded, overpopulated, dirty squaller (sic) of many countries, including India».
The Tribunal deemed Pollitt unfit to hold a real estate and business agents licence for eight months beginning September 1.
It heard that after Kumar vacated the home in December 2020, Pollitt told him that the house owner did not agree that the security deposit should be released in full.
Following discussions regarding the full return of the deposit in May 2021, Pollitt sent the mail which said: «Our living standards, our quality of life and expectations are very different to the overcrowded, overpopulated, dirty squaller (sic) of many other countries including India».
«Therefore, it is impossible to have a discussion about what is clean and when I and most Australians have an expectation of what is clean and you are talking from what you are used to,» the email read.
Calling herself a «white Australian», Pollitt further said that she hoped that «the massive influx of Indian people will not turn our beautiful country into the filth that is India where bodies are on the street, half burnt bodies are in the river and people climb over each other for medical help while living in absolute slums».
«It all starts with cleaning the rental properties though
