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

Exclusive: prominent Indigenous journalist, who recently left the ABC, says he is being targeted by News Corp paper which ran story about a ‘bullying’ incident

The Guardian - AU

Mark Humphries’ comedy sketch cut from 7.30 in ABC’s latest cost-cutting drive

Satirical sketches axed due to ‘tight budgetary environment’. Plus: ABC managing director David Anderson gains another term

The Guardian - AU

David Anderson takes the ABC into the future as Ita Buttrose and Stan Grant leave

In this week’s Media Briefs, Stan Grant resigns from the ABC altogether, Ita sets sail, and David Anderson locks in another term.

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As ABC chair, Ita Buttrose stood up for the broadcaster's independence. It's time others did the same

Ita Buttrose has announced she will not seek a second term as ABC chair, which means her term will expire in March 2024.

The Conversation

Stan Grant resigns from ABC and four-decade media career for university role

Former Q+A host appointed professor of journalism and inaugural director of Constructive Institute Asia Pacific

The Guardian - AU

Warren Mundine urged to give full details of ‘sacking’ of no campaign volunteers over alleged racist remarks

Spokesman for Indigenous voice to parliament no campaign also condemns comments by Advance board member questioning Stan Grant’s skin tone

The Guardian - AU

The colour of his skin

Australian Jewish Association head David Adler has been slammed for posting ‘grotesque’ and ‘disgusting’ slurs over the colour of journalist Stan Grant’s skin, and a group of former Labor heavies has urged PM Anthony Albanese to push harder to get Julian Assange home before he dies.

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Fare go: Ben Fordham’s side hustle revealed as Uber sponsorship deal

The 2GB presenter begins new career as an Uber driver, according to tabloid articles that didn’t mention his commercial arrangement. Plus: Kyle Sandilands reprimanded again

The Guardian - AU

Lehrmann threatens to sue ACT’s DPP

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will sue for compensation if a report finds ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold acted with ‘malice’, and social anthropologist Peter Sutton says he was ‘set up’ in an ABC doco on Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu.

Crikey

Stan Grant and I have different views but Australia has silenced another Indigenous voice

Celeste Liddle writes on Stan Grant’s permanent departure from Q+A and what it represents

Crikey

Q+A on life support as executive producer joins Stan Grant and heads for the door

Q+A’s executive producer, Erin Vincent, quits the ABC. Plus: News Corp staff told to pay for print copies of SMH and AFR

The Guardian - AU

The ABCs of fumbling the bag

This week: Stan Grant’s Q+A exit; Sky News finding its Voice; some quarterly results; and Oz camera operators break protocol during PM’s visit to NZ.

Crikey

Afternoon Update: no voice leader criticised over Aboriginality blood test comments; Kathryn Campbell resigns; and John Farnham cancer-free

Former Labor minister Gary Johns faces calls to resign for comments he wrote published in a book last year

The Guardian - AU

Stan Grant will not return to Q+A

ABC News boss Justin Stevens says Grant will stay with the ABC and work on ‘new projects’ and a ‘number of different’ programs.

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The Guardian - AU

Stan Grant to step down as Q+A host permanently and move on to other ABC roles

RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas will replace high-profile Indigenous journalist, who quit after being the target of racist abuse

Crikey

‘Sorry they were disappointed’: ABC’s Ita Buttrose offers fig leaf to monarchists

The Australian Monarchist League is not impressed with the ‘Clayton’s apology’ for what it called the ABC’s ‘biased’ coverage.

Crikey

Critical to-and-fro between ABC and News Corp not ‘a bad thing’: News Corp boss

Conflict between the two media giants, which have spent the better part of this year sparring, has been overplayed, Michael Miller says.

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Grant returns to stage to demystify referendum issues

Trailblazing journalist Stan Grant will reappear in public to front an expert panel breaking down the 2023 referendum on the voice to parliament.

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The Guardian - AU

The Dark Emu Story: the legacy – and controversy – of Bruce Pascoe’s groundbreaking book

A new documentary airing on ABC explores the toll Dark Emu took on its author as it sought to challenge the way Australia once understood Indigenous people

The Canberra Times

Bluey, bookclubs and bad mothers on Canberra Writers Festival menu

New director Beejay Silcox has taken a broad brush to the political theme.

The Conversation

Possession and devotion inform Sarah Krasnostein's compelling reinterpretation of Peter Carey's art

Sarah Krasnostein’s On Peter Carey is the 12th instalment of Black Inc.’s highly readable series, Writers on Writers. The series is nicely conceived, as it pitches Australian writers not just against each other, but across a generational divide.

The Guardian - AU

Sydney Morning Herald apologises for failing ‘dismally’ on coverage of 1838 Myall Creek massacre

Nine Entertainment paper says it ‘essentially campaigned’ for 11 stockmen accused of killing at least 28 Aboriginal people to escape prosecution

Newcastle Herald

Lord mayor in feisty exchange with Coalition MP over energy policy on Q+A

Cr Nelmes said the Coalition had not done enough on energy transition while in power. Mr O'Brien said workers should not be sold 'false promises'.

The Guardian - AU

Kerry Stokes’ gamble on Ben Roberts-Smith backfires as Seven bets on Bruce Lehrmann

The former Coalition staffer, who denies claims by Brittany Higgins, will appear on Seven’s Spotlight program on Sunday to tell ‘his side of the story’. Plus: Crikey celebrates a legal win

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The ABC at its worst is vastly better than its competitors. Time to defend it without apology

Management need to stop the racial guilt trip and state the obvious: public broadcasting strives to represent Australia, while the commercial networks manufacture Anglo whiteness.

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