Antoinette Lattouf
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1,118 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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for a society and a democracy that is so culturally and linguistically diverse.
But it also gives you a taste of how and why certain issues about minoritised and marginalised communities are treated or ignored because you have a particular lens and a particular worldview that dominates newsrooms around the country.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I grew up in the so-called war on terror era
I grew up in Western Sydney.
There was the Cronulla riots when I was, I think, still at school or university.
I have distinct memories of September 11 and the coverage and the narrative after that, the gaslighting and excuses to...
go into Iraq and kill hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people for so-called weapons of mass destruction.
We just did a whole deep dive on the Iraq war.
It is insane.
And also how the media manufactures consent for outward racism or, in this case, genocide.
And there was just so many things that were dangerous and unfair, whether it was the shock jocks or whether it was Murdoch press.
And perhaps...
naively, I thought that I could contribute to it and change it.
If I joined, my voice would be part of a shift in 10 years into working in the media.
I was like, hey, things haven't changed.
And so I started a not-for-profit, Media Diversity Australia, thinking, well, okay, we need other things to help structural change come about.
And so we did things like academic research with university partners.
We did internships and scholarships and
for mid-range journalists of colour to go into management roles.
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