Australian media are playing a dangerous game using racism as currency
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDIt has been quite a week for race-laden discourse in the Australian media.
There was Blair Cottrell, a notorious pro-Hitler extremist, appearing on Sky News and calling for a race-based immigration policy.
There was Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun sounding the tocsin about how “there is no ‘us’...