I posted
recently on the difficulties that non-white models are said to face in the Australian market, after an agency told an Indian-Australian model, successful overseas, that she'd struggle to find work in Perth due to her ethnicity.
So where does that leave all our young good-looking go-getters who happen to have somewhat swarthier complexions?
They could always try out as a journalist on SBS TV. Australia's multicultural broadcaster has clearly taken it upon itself to overcompensate for the lack of ethnic diversity on the mainstream channels' news departments. You would hard-pressed to claim that their selection of faces represents the Australian population. But I ain't complaining. Particularly since the network has been gradually upping the good-lookingness of its on-camera team in recent years.
Of course, SBS has by far and away the best coverage of global news of any free-to-air network in Australia. But this post is not about news, so much as it is a celebration of this oasis of brown hotness in Australia's broadcasting desert.
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| Janice Peterson (newsreader) |
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| Peta-Jane Madam (reporter & newsreader) |
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| Auskar Surbakti (reporter) |
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| Yalda Hakim (host, Dateline) |
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| Kathy Novak (reporter) |
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| Anton Enus (newsreader) |
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| Leroy Ah Ben (reporter) |
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| Former newsreader Indira Naidoo, one of the first Indians in a prominent Australian TV role. |
See also:
The lack of Asians on Australian TV, and why it matters
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