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tan Grant may have dominated the headlines but two other First Nations journalists who have been covering Indigenous affairs at the ABC since 2017 say it’s been “a long road of systemic racism, ignorance, and personal challenge”.
“There was a perception of what Indigenous stories were, how they would perform, what they would look like,” Higgins explains.“I look up at the TV in the morning and Indigenous affairs is leading the bulletin and I don’t think that’s just because we’re having a referendum.” Nine News, our largest locally-owned media group, hasone correspondent, Edward Godfrey, who is filing for Nine’s TV News. The ABC has correspondent, Nick Dole as well as Tom Joyner and John Lyons reporting for TV, radio and online.The Sydney Morning Herald and the Age don’t have any dedicated correspondents in the area anymore.
For the record the Guardian, which is a global media organisation, has four reporters on the ground in Israel and one in Gaza.The ABC’s current affairs program Foreign Correspondent filmed a piece on the occupied West Bank not long before Hamas attacked Israel. Producers were left with a story which documented the tensions but not the dramatic escalation of conflict on the weekend.
“It follows concerns raised to Sky news from members of the Jewish Community about the display,” Love posted on X . If you are what the ABC has designated a “high risk worker” – in other words a reporter or a presenter – you had better take your social media activity seriously.
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