Stan Grant accuses the Australian newspaper of acting like a ‘racist hit squad’

Stan Grant has accused Rupert Murdoch’s the Australian newspaper of acting like a hit squad targeting Indigenous people. Photograph: Jason McCawley/Getty Images

Stan Grant has accused the Australian newspaper of acting like “a racist hit squad” with a history of targeting Indigenous public figures, after the Murdoch masthead claimed the former ABC host was the subject of a bullying complaint.

“They’ve targeted Marcia Langton, they’ve targeted Noel Pearson – he’s been depicted as some sort of raving bully in the past,” Grant said. “They’ve done it to Larissa Behrendt, they’ve done it to Bruce Pascoe, it’s hunting season for Aboriginal people, that’s what it is.”