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For years I've been a media target for racism and paid a heavy price.

This biographical entry was contributed by Australian Indigenous Autobiography Archive. Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity. They later moved to a Housing Commission in the town itself. Wilcannia: a predominantly Aboriginal town in remote New South Wales. Stan felt most safe at school in Griffith, because he had lots of tough Aboriginal friends. By this time, the principal at Griffith High had already asked Stan to leave school.

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He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity. He is a Wiradjuri man. He spent much of his childhood in inner Victoria , where the Wiradjuri people also have roots. Grant spent his high school years in Canberra at Ginninderra High. Grant has more than 30 years of experience working in broadcast radio and television news and current affairs. In he took on the role of co-presenter of the one-hour 6. He told of the impact of colonisation on Indigenous Australians , past and present. He argued that "the Australian Dream" was based upon racism, mentioning his ancestors and others who were forced into institutions and unpaid work. In , Grant joined the ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs and fill-in host of nightly current affairs programme 7. Grant also hosted The Link, which aired on Friday nights.

I owe anything I have done to them.

The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons. Stan Grant b. As his father was a saw miller who worked all over central NSW, he attended at least twelve different primary schools before his family moved to Canberra. After he finished school he got a job at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; while working there he met Marcia Langton, who encouraged him to go to university. In , he moved to Doha, Qatar to work with Al Jazeera.

My family and millions of others are proof of that. To not know what it is to come from a people who face an existential threat. Who have clung on to their very place on this earth. I wonder what it would be like for me to be like my colleagues for whom this is one of the defining stories of their lifetimes. It went viral. The piece was titled…. My surname was a curse, in that it made me a target in the s. My way of handling it was to laugh it off. I picked up a pen and taught myself how to draw cartoons. We wogs learned how to fit in, to integrate.

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In the final minutes of the show, he addressed the audience about why he was stepping away. Grant said hateful messages to him had taken a toll on him and his family. I'm sorry that I must have given you so much cause to hate me," he said. Grant said although he is down right now, he is only stepping away, not stepping down. And you can come at me again, and I will meet you with the love of my people. He said in his weekly column that since appearing as a guest as part of the ABC's coverage of the coronation of King Charles, he had been subjected to intense abuse inspired by distorted media coverage and had "had enough". I feel like I'm part of the problem and I need to ask myself how, or if, we can do it better. Grant added: "Too often, we are the poison in the bloodstream of our society. He said he feared the media did not have the love or the language, "to speak to the gentle spirits of our land". Grant also thanked those who sent him messages of support and said he would be OK.

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Stan Grant b. He told of the impact of colonisation on Indigenous Australians , past and present. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Grant ruled out running for the National Party of Australia and said he was not "ideologically bound to the left" and that he admired people with the "small-l liberal" approach". Requests for a reproduction of a work of art or other content can be made through a Reproduction request. Australian National University. I occupy a privileged and prominent place in the media — I should be critiqued. Anthony Albanese in March announced the wording of the referendum question upon which Australians will vote this year. The Saturday Paper. Love that inspired my grandfather — a Wiradjuri man — to fight in World War II for a country that didn't recognise his full humanity, let alone his citizenship. I look for the world like I don't belong. Tracey Holmes. The ABC has this year lodged an official complaint with Twitter about the relentless racial filth I am subjected to. They have accused me of maligning Australia.

He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity.

It was there that he met Marcia Langton, who advised him to attend University. On social media my family and I are regularly racially mocked or abused. ABC Classic Interview. Retrieved 15 June Read Edit View history. These Aboriginal spokespeople campaign for citizenship and acceptance in white society. I look for the world like I don't belong. Laurie was a heavy drinker who died when he was just fifty. Every Indigenous person has felt it". Indigenous Australia. But I know the impact they have. Stan believes John Grant to be his great-great grandfather, and retells his life story.