I'll take a guess at why your casual-Eddie-McGuire-type-racism persists in this country - because you don't get killed for it and you certainly don't get punished if you're rich and white.

You give a press conference. You get suspended pending an internal enquiry. You move on in a week or two and things go on as they always have.

This is not to say the standard result for using racial slurs in a country like the US is death - but baby, you pull an "ape" or "nigger" line out on the subway of your average US city, you're odds-on to get a beating. You say it to the wrong person and you're gonna get shot or stabbed or stomped into a cranial pizza.

Like most things in this country, we don't get it served real. We get the imported Aussie "lite" version.