There’s no racism at Basketball Australia? Well never mind, all is not lost

A Human Rights Commission report into racism within Basketball Australia, released at the weekend, is a solution in search of a problem.

A five-month investigation by the HRC found pretty much zero evidence of racism.

In fact, the report itself lamented that only 21 people had even bothered to make submissions to the inquiry.

It said the poor response indicated “a lack of interest in the topic by the basketball community or no concerns about racial equality in basketball”.

Well, there you go. That’s good news, right?

And the few who did respond to the HRC’s call for evidence of racism said that the sport could “sometimes be exclusionary”. And — wait for it — that “progress can sometimes depend on who you…