Laura Tingle rebuked by ABC for calling Australia racist
Sam Buckingham-JonesMedia and marketing reporter
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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