Media portrayals of Indigenous Australians fall into a range of categories, which academics and commentators have described as often negative or stereotyped. It is believed that these portrayals affect Australian life, as contact between Aboriginal and other Australians is often limited.
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“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognises neither pity nor pitilessness.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
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