Nine Entertainment paper says it ‘essentially campaigned’ for 11 stockmen accused of killing at least 28 Aboriginal people to escape prosecution
“In one editorial published ahead of the trials and amid a public debate about legal protections for Aboriginal people, the Herald proclaimed: ‘The whole gang of black animals are not worth the money the colonists will have to pay for printing the silly documents on which we have already wasted too much time’.”
The SMH editor, Bevan Shields, says the attitude of the paper cannot be excused by the historical context as it was not necessarily shared by other publications at the time, which had “much more respectful” coverage. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup
The Herald, which began publication in 1831, even encouraged readers “to shoot and kill Aboriginal people if they ever felt threatened”, a move which “helped support the proposition colonists should be entitled to impunity for violence against Aboriginal people”. The decision by the Nine Entertainment publication to apologise follows the Guardian’s recent series Cotton Capital, which saw the owner of the Guardian, the Scott Trust,The Scott Trust said it expected to invest more than £10m , with millionsThe Herald also apologised in 2016 for the hurt and suffering caused by the publication of the names, addresses and professions of 53 people arrested during the 1978 Mardi Gras.
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