The Indigenous journalist has announced he will step away from the ABC’s current affairs panel show over the “racial filth” to which he has been subjected.
, is stepping down, citing exhaustion from the torrent of racist abuse to which he has been subjected on social media, especially in the wake of his contribution to the public broadcaster’s coverage of the coronation of King Charles III.
“I don’t even read it, yet I can’t escape it. People stop me in the street to tell me how vile it is. They tell me how sorry they are. Although I try to shield myself from it, the fact it is out there poisons the air I breathe.” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters travelling with him in Japan that Grant had his respect and he was concerned about the level of hatred on social media in the leadup to the Voice referendum. “To see some of the comments that are, quite frankly, completely out of line,” Albanese said. “We can have respectful different views without engaging in vilification and that’s important.
Though critical of ABC management in general, Grant did single out Stevens, the broadcaster’s news chief, for his friendship.
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