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Bolt the door

Back in March, Crikey revealed a memo from the Australian Press Council following complaints about the Herald Sun using the outdated and offensive term “Aborigine” in a headline. The memo did not refer the complaint for further consideration, but stated that Hun editor Sam Weir had “undertaken to use the terms ‘Indigenous or Aboriginal people’ in future in lieu of the term ‘Aborigine’”. But as a tipster got in contact to point out, guess who didn’t stick to that?

Yep, last week, Andrew Bolt — in an oddly listless piece about the scourge of “anti-white racism” that sews together many of Bolt’s long-standing preoccupations and shocks them awake like an elderly Frankenstein — used the word to describe then Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney.