The ABC's recently appointed
Indigenous affairs editor Stan Grant urged a rethink of what it means to be Indigenous in modern Australia, saying that as well as disadvantage and suffering, there is a strongly emerging «Indigenous middle class».
Launching the Media and
Indigenous Policy report,
editor - at - large of the Canberra Times, Jack Waterford, lamented the era of «casual indifference» to
Indigenous affairs that characterised the current generation of mainstream journalism.