The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has violated impartiality and accuracy standards in its radio report on the Alice Springs community meeting, the newly created ABC Ombudsman’s office found.
The ABC’s flagship radio program AM on Jan. 31 aired a report in which it accused locals worried about the alcohol-fulled crime wave in the remote community of being “racist.”
It also featured interviews of people criticising the meeting as a “white supremacist fest” and describing the vibe as “scary.”
The report comes as Alice Springs, a remote community in Australia’s Northern Territory, grapples with escalating crime rates and increasing youth violence. Residents blamed the issue on the state government’s decision to lift an alcohol ban in the community in 2022….