Media watchdog’s finding on Sunrise’s Indigenous adoption segment is justified
ACMA’s recent ruling on Sunrise’s Indigenous adoption segment wasn’t a failure of free speech, but a reminder of the importance of journalistic codes, writes the University of Melbourne’s Alana Schetzer in this crossposting from The Conversation.
In March this year, Sunrise aired a panel discussion about the removal of Indigenous children from dangerous or abusive family situations.
It wrongly claimed that Indigenous children could not be fostered by non-Indigenous families and one panellist, commentator Prue MacSween, suggested that the Stolen Generation might need to be repeated in order to save children from physical and sexual abuse.
