ABC's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle has been hammered by several disgruntled Australians including 2GB host Ben Fordham after she branded the country as 'racist'.
Ben Fordham has delivered a scathing rebuke of the ABC 's chief political correspondent, Laura Tingle , after she controversially declared Australia to be a"racist" country. ABC 's chief political correspondent Laura Tingle has been hammered by several disgruntled Australia ns including 2GB host Ben Fordham after she branded the country as"racist".
ABC's Laura Tingle has been slammed for calling Australia a racist county at the Sydney Writers Festival. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin OllmanShe said after listening to the budget reply, she"had this sudden flash of people turning up to try and rent a property or at an auction and they look a bit different – whatever you define different as – that basically has given them licence to be abused, and in any circumstance where people feel like they’re missing out”.
"We probably saw more racism 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago than we do today, and we get better and better as every country does at learning about different people from other parts of the world," he said. Fordham spoke to shadow Indigenous affairs minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price who said she was"really disappointed" at Tingle's claims Australia was racist.
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