Media regulator boss cant bring herself to read out revolting Kyle & Jackie O transcripts in Senate estimates hearing

Australia’s communications regulator has come under fire for failing to investigate “revolting” material aired on the Kyle & Jackie O show, including “sexist, racist, [and] misogynistic” content. In a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday night, the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young challenged the chair of Australia’s communications and media regulator, Nerida O’Loughlin, to read out a sample of comments made on KIIS FM’s flagship breakfast show in recent weeks. Hanson-Young said that the material, which she circulated to the committee, included “jokes about people being gay, jokes about one of the producer’s Asian housemates, jokes about people not being white …

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