US magazine, National Geographic, has apologised for decades of racist coverage on Aboriginal Australians.
The magazine had previously featured images of Indigenous Australians with captions reading “South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings." Editor Susan Goldberg said that the captions had left her “speechless”.
Karen Mundine, the director of Reconciliation Australia, welcomed the magazine's acknowledgement of its past wrongdoing and said “it's positive that National Geographic has recognised there are problems with their previous depictions, and they are starting to address how they've spoken about people of colour”.