Australian Court Convicts Columnist of Racial Discrimination

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By: Vittorio Hernandez | International Business Times

Justice Mordecai Bromberg found newspaper columnist Andrew Bold guilty Wednesday of violating Australia's Racial Discrimination Act. Bolt, who writes for Herald Sun and Weekly Times, published two articles on racial identity which the court found have errors in fact, distorted the truth and used inflammatory and provocative language.


The lawsuit was initiated by Pat Eatock, a 72-year-old aboriginal activist, and eight others who protested Bolt's criticism of mixed-race, fair-skinned aborigines, whom he labeled "political aborigines" for gaining prominence or receiving indigenous awards because of their choice to identify with that part pf their ancestry.































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