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Inside the Stan Grant fracas at the ABC

Inside the Stan Grant fracas at the ABC

Key personnel changes and ill-timed scheduling decisions are partly to blame for a series of events that led to Stan Grant walking out of ABC’s Q&A program, according to multiple senior staff at the public broadcaster.

The ABC has been grappling with the fallout from its coverage of the coronation of King Charles more than three weeks ago, which made Grant a target of vicious racism online and in complaints to the broadcaster.

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