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Laura Tingle rebuked by ABC for calling Australia racist

Sam Buckingham-Jones
Sam Buckingham-JonesMedia and marketing reporter

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One of the ABC’s highest profile journalists, 7.30 chief political correspondent Laura Tingle, has been counselled by the public broadcaster’s news chief after she described Australia as a racist country.

At a Sydney Writers’ Festival event moderated by former Insiders presenter Barrie Cassidy at the weekend, Tingle, the ABC’s staff-elected board member and a columnist at The Australian Financial Review, criticised Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s comments about migrants.

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Sam Buckingham-Jones is the media and marketing reporter at The Australian Financial Review. Connect with Sam on Twitter.

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