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TV Chef Jamie Oliver “Devastated”, Apologises For Offending Indigenous Australians With Children’s Book
A First Nations organisation has called his children's book "damaging and stereotyping."
First Nations Australians have called for TV chef Jamie Oliver to withdraw his children’s book from sale, saying it includes a “damaging stereotype of First Nations people and experiences.” The British TV chef and author has apologised for the offence he has caused to indigenous Australians with his children’s book Billy and the Epic Escape. The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation (Natsiec) has called the story “damaging, disrespectful, accusing Oliver of contributing to the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences.” They have called for the withdrawal of the book.
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