Australia’s Network Ten Apologises For “Racist, Derogatory” Comments Heard In Leaked Audio By TV Host
deadline.comAustralia’s Network Ten has given a private apology to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price after the indigenous senator was heard being mocked by TV host Lisa Wilkinson in leaked audio.
The audio, reported last week but recorded back in 2021, featured Wilkinson apparently mocking the Coalition party and struggling to pronounce “Nampijinpa.” And Wilkinson can be heard saying the Liberal party preselected “over 20 new and wonderfully diverse and strong female candidates like, and what’s her name, Nam… Nampinjumba? (sic).
She’s an Indigenous woman.” Another voice on the audio, David Sharaz (the partner of Brittany Higgins, a potential interviewee for Wilkinson’s show The Project) was heard replying: “She clearly got in.
Clearly it was a safe seat.” And producer Angus Llewellyn was heard adding: “See, we know brown people.” Price spoke out on Friday, telling Australian radio 2GB the comments were “racist” and “derogatory.” “I would absolutely expect an apology from the Ten Network, from Lisa Wilkinson herself.
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