Racist t-shirts

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AS Australia was proudly celebrating its national day yesterday, a Darwin store was selling Australia Day shirts emblazoned with "racist" messages.

The Northern Territory News learned the Drunken Goat variety store in Casuarina was displaying a T-shirt in its front window proclaiming, "This is Australia. We eat meat, we drink beer, and we speak f------ English".

Another featured a picture of the Australian flag with the message "Support it or F--- OFF".

The manager of the store was unavailable to comment yesterday but community groups were outraged that the store would offer these shirts as part of their Australia Day window display.

Africa-Australia Friendship Association president Judy Monkhouse said she was "appalled" by the comments.

"If indeed that's what they say, it is quite astonishing to see this in Darwin, in particular, which is celebrated for the fact that so many different ethnicities exist together in relative harmony," she said.