The agency responsible for bringing to the screen some of Australia’s most significant Indigenous projects says complaints of racist and discriminatory behaviour in the film and television industry have risen in the past two years.
More than a third of the programs analysed had main casts consisting entirely of characters from Anglo-Celtic backgrounds.
Smallacombe, a Maramanindji woman from the Northern Territory, declined to comment specifically on the Indigenous actor Shareena Clanton’s allegations of racism and sexism on the Neighbours’ set or FremantleMedia’s handling of her complaints.
We need drivers across the board to make sure that these kinds of behaviours aren’t acceptable ways of working.”