Whitewashing

Two and one-half years ago, I voiced my concerns about the marked lack of diversity within Australian media right here at BP.com. At long last, the issue has gotten a bit of an airing, with this article in The Age.

A pale limitation
Melinda Houston
March 29, 2009

"IS AUSTRALIAN television really "hideously white"? Last year Britain's racial equality chief Trevor Phillips initiated an inquiry into racial depictions on television, and summed up Britain's television diet in those two pithy words.

What's slightly embarrassing for us down under is that two of the programs singled out for criticism by English viewers were [Australia's] Neighbours and Home and Away. Even from the other side of the world they couldn't quite swallow a Summer Bay denuded of non-Anglos." continues