TV host Stan Grant has quit after receiving racist abuse. The abuse came in response to his comments about historic Aboriginal dispossession during King Charles' coronation
Australian Indigenous TV Host Quits Over 'Sickening' Racist Attacks
After more than 30 years of news experience in Australian television, Grant wrote Friday in his regular ABC online column that Monday would be the last time in the foreseeable future that he would host his weekly national panel discussion program “Q+A,” because of the news media and social media abuse.
Grant was asked to participate on the panel “as a Wiradjuri man to discuss his own family’s experience and the role of the monarchy in Australia in the context of Indigenous history,” Justin Stevens, ABC news director, said in a statement. Grant’s journalist daughter Lowanna Grant told the crowd about the toll racist abuse had taken on their family.
“To see him now stepping down indefinitely from one of the most senior positions in Australia, it feels like a grieving. It feels like a sense of loss,” Jacobs told her employer, 10 Network television.
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