AFR apologises for running voice no campaign ad featuring ‘racist trope’

Newspaper publisher says ad should not have run' after federal independent Kate Chaney accuses no campaign of stoking fear and hate'

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The no campaign has been accused of using a racist trope" in a newspaper ad which included a cartoon figure of an Indigenous voice campaigner appearing to dance for money.

Matt Kean, a New South Wales Liberal MP lashed the Advance conservative lobby group for a throwback to the Jim Crow era of the deep south", saying the full-page ad in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) had no place in Australian politics. A spokesperson for Nine, publisher of the AFR, later apologised and said the ad should never have run.