Australia Is Not Racist: Senior Minister Refutes ABC Journalist

Published on May 27, 2024

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has refuted a recent comment from an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) senior journalist that Australia was a racist country. On May 26, chief political correspondent for ABC’s 7.30 program, Laura Tingle, who is also the president of the National Press Club of Australia, made a surprise comment to the audience when she was on a panel at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. “We are a racist country. Let’s face it. We always have been, and it’s very depressing,” she said. On May 27, Ms. Plibersek rejected the idea that Australia was racist. “I think it’s a fantastic multicultural country, but we have to protect against incidents of racism which occur in our community as they do in every community,” she told the Sunrise program....

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