Blackface in Australia

So there's been lots of condemnation of this Hey Hey blackface thing, and the typical "But we're not racist, it's you race-obsessed Americans being oversensitive" crap that has followed(*).

But I haven't seen much discussion by Australians of general Australian attitudes to blackface, which is something I've actually been pondering for a while. Note: all links lead to racist images/video.
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