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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: no campaign ad condemned as ‘racist trope’; minister calls Donald Trump Jr ‘a big baby’; and Meta launches Threads

A full-page no campaign ad in the Australian Financial Review
The no campaign has been accused of using a ‘racist trope’ in an ad opposing the Indigenous voice in the Australian Financial Review. Photograph: AFR

Good afternoon. A full-page no campaign ad in the Australian Financial Review, which featured a cartoon figure of an Indigenous voice campaigner appearing to dance for money, has been condemned as a “racist trope”.

The New South Wales Liberal MP Matt Kean and independent federal MPs Monique Ryan and Zali Steggall were among those who criticised the ad. Kean called it “a throwback to the Jim Crow era of the deep south”.

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