ABC staff walk off the job in solidarity with Q&A host Stan Grant: ‘I stand with Stan’ 

ABC staff walk off the job in solidarity with Q&A host Stan Grant as he quits the show over racist trolling: ‘I stand with Stan’

ABC staff have walked off the job in solidarity with Q&A host Stan Grant and in a protest against racism. 

Dozens of staff at the national broadcaster gathered outside its Ultimo, Sydney headquarters at outside Parliament House, Canberra, about 2.30pm on Tuesday. 

ABC staffer Dee Jefferson confirmed in a tweet that workers would be staging a walk-out.

‘ABC staff are walking out in support of Stan this afternoon,’ she wrote.

‘Stan’s experience of racist abuse is shared by so many colleagues. Listening is the smallest part of what we can do to help clean up this mess.’

Fellow ABC host Patricia Karvelas tweeted this afternoon saying ‘#istandwithstan #werejectracism’.

Dana Morse, ABC’s federal political reporter, said: ‘Enough is enough.’

Ex-SBS journalist and Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) union organiser Tyron Butson tweeted seevral pictires of ABC staff standing outside the offices holding signs which read ‘I stand with Stan’ and ‘We reject racism’.   

‘Amazing to see a massive member turn out from ABC Ultimo saying #werejectracism and #istandwithstan declaring Australian media and society must do better,’ Mr Butson wrote. 

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