Alice Springs Resident Michelle Thompson says local residents within the town were “gutted” after the ABC’s report made the meeting appear as racially divisive.
“I was totally gutted by their reporting, they were so inaccurate I thought that person couldn’t have possibly have been there,” she told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“The only people that I know would have left in tears were the agitators that were asked to leave by the Arrernte people. “They were just there to disrupt, there were over 3000 local residents all there because my son had put out a call for everyone to come together to try and move forward, to save Alice Springs.”
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