Jericho Malabonga, whose background is Filipino, did win season two of the show, and the latest season's crop of 24 Champions v Contenders included Olympic champion and former senator Nova Peris and Sydney digital marketing manager Laura Choong.
But with both Peris and Choong being eliminated early on, it appears to be that the only non-white faces on the current season of Australian Survivor, set in Fiji, are the brief flashes during the opening credits of what we are meant to read as"tribespeople". LaPaglia has signed on as host of all four seasons of Ten's Australian Survivor. But unlike his American counterpart Jeff Probst, who also serves as his show's Executive Producer, the Australian has an arm's-length relationship with the local production."I've never really got a satisfactory answer on it [the diversity question].
"The producers probably want to stab me right now but … to disagree would be disingenuous right? I mean, it's hard to deny the obvious, it does feel very whitewashed, yes."
I wouldn't know, as with the ABC, I don't watch shit television.
Yes. I think the ABC should be able force people of different backgrounds into TV shows for everones entertainment. How dare those uppity people refuse go comply with the woke code
Australian survivor is racist.
Favorite term of the morning... Proggressive Guilt Neurosis a_centrism ta x
This is most racist statement I’ve ever heard!
Firstly, they should sack this clown immediately. Secondly, has anyone considered that these contestants may have been the best qualified applicants for the show rather than making up the numbers with token ethnic individuals who may not have met the criteria ?
So, who cares.
He's racist. Now we know.
Well Indigenous Australians know all about surviving.
RadioNational To be honest, having watched just two episodes this season, the show seems stuck in the Primary school playground battle between boys and girls. 'Let's vote, trick, manipulate, outpower the girls. Then us white boys can just get on with the game'.
Wasn’t Nova Peris on it? You can’t win sweet FA if you’re a white Aussie born male with an Aussie background anymore can you? Everyone hates us.
You mean like Australia?
Absolutely quality journalism right here gents, whoever wrote this should be proud for this masterpiece that has been created.
Sounds like it might be worth a look
The Australian survivor 'reward 'challengers are getting stingier and stingier the American one has helicopter trips and boat cruiser, the Australian one have popcorn, toasted sangers, and sausage rolls.
People will say anything for attention! But a tax payer funded broadcaster should know better than to fall for any publicity is good publicity! defund
Where's the issue? Is it in the casting or the applicants? If only 'white folk' are applying we don't need to force multiculturalism for the sake of it...
maybe because they know that coloured people would crush the challenges easy, or because they know that coloured people eating bare minimum for whatever days is also a challenge that would be handled easy as opposed to white people 'starving' after missing a snack.
Imagine having a problem with white people in a show made in a majority white country
Not needing to turn a profit, the ABC can be as diverse as it likes.
24 survivors, 1 aboriginal and 1 Asian. So 4.1% of the cast is aboriginal. Aboriginals make up 3.3% of the population so it's reflective of the Australian community. 16% of Australians are Asian but they probably don't want to starve on an Asian island for white entertainment
Wow, what a surprise
I hear they're planning to just install webcams around Nauru Detention Centre and rebranding it Australian Survivor.
They are not white, they are thermochromic, they go blue in the cold and pink or even red when hot.
They could solve this 'problem' by sacking the incredibly white host.
I mean makes sense that it’d be mostly white ppl applying for survivor. I like that John spoke his mind on this. It’s something I kno a lot of ppl I talk to were thinking.
Maybe that's because people of other ethnicities have more self esteem and don't need to be attention whores?
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