Stan Grant ‘fed up’ with racial abuse, quits ABC role
Celebrated Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant is set to step away from the ABC, saying he has “had enough” of the “relentless racial filth” he has been subjected to and does not know when or if he will return.
A year after being made the permanent host of Q&A, Grant revealed next Monday’s episode will be his last.
Announcing his departure via a column published on ABC News, he said the racial abuse he has received in the weeks following King Charles III’s coronation had pushed him over the edge.
There is something a bit sad about the fact that we get all up in arms in the comments about WFH narratives yet when something big happens, something that really genuinely matters, there’s silence.
Where is the support for Grant from the industry aside from Stevens?
I was subject to horrible behaviour by a senior female in an ABC newsroom because I’d come from commercial TV and she wanted to make me suffer for the gall of coming to work at the ABC when she saw me as worthless. If you don’t fit the ‘ABC mould’ you can be up against it and good people give up and leave. Hence Stan receiving no support. The organisation is lacking culturally. Culture comes from the top.
You can be outraged, but surely you really can’t be that surprised? I doubt there’s an industry more internally obsessed that those this website covers.