The national broadcaster has issued an apology for an 'incomplete' report of an Alice Springs community meeting which included one-sided interviews from attendees who claimed the meeting was a “disgusting show of white supremacy”.
of the sentiment in the meeting.
“However, we acknowledge that one report on AM was incomplete, and did not adequately cover the full context of the meeting or the range of perspectives expressed at it. An editor’s note at the bottom of the statement also insisted the views claiming the town meeting contained racist themes were “reported accurately” but the coverage should have contained a “broader range of perspectives expressed at the meeting”.In the aftermath of the report, several community members were quick to quash the claims it was a racism-fuelled event rather than a gathering to discuss responses to the soaring crime rate in Alice Springs.
“But the other 3,500 people and people in the car park that couldn’t even get near the building were genuine good long-term locals and a lot of very strong Indigenous families around town, so to call them neo-Nazis and right-wing I think it quite insulting.”
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