Channel Seven has agreed to a legally-binding review of breakfast program Sunrise, according to the communications watchdog.

On Friday last week, the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealed Seven had accepted a court-enforceable undertaking in the wake of Sunrise's widely-condemned 'Hot Topics' segment on Aboriginal adoption.

The broadcast, which went to air in March 2018, saw Sunrise host Samantha Armytage wrongly state that Aboriginal children could only be placed with Indigenous families. Commentator Prue MacSween, who once suggested she wanted to run-over writer and former broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied, added that a "fabricated PC outlook" was to blame.

An ACMA spokesperson said in a statement the media watchdog would be verifying the independence and terms of reference for the review.

News of the legally-binding agreement comes just days after Seven failed in its bid to strike-out a lawsuit initiated by a group of Aboriginal people who featured in the 'Hot Topics' segment via blurred, archival footage. Yolngu woman Kathy Mununggurr and 14 others claim the footage defamed them because it implied they abused or neglected children.

The group also claims Seven breached their confidence and privacy because the footage was originally filmed for the purposes of shedding light on Aboriginal health. A trial is expected to be held later this year.

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Whenever they they do a segment on aboriginal people they always bring in a panel of people consisting of zero aboriginal people.  Most (if not all) have very little understanding of aboriginal issues.

If we are to have a grown up discussion in this country, then programs like this need to have a balanced panel. But that won't happen because programs like this are for entrainment not information.

I have to say I have never heard of this program and the topic...its all news to me..

at the same time raven  it doesnt matter what any white person says.. its always misinterpreted...always....

I am pretty sure Sam Armytage didnt intend to insult anyone at all...

and its a shame every word  gets the same treatment   before you can blink its IN COURT....so much for dialogue raven......

tonight I watched the new show on Tv called TABOO...last week it was on the disabled and I watched something else.....

this week it was on Racism  so I watched it......

and yes I got my eyes opened... I for one do no class myself as a racist...that I guess is for others to point their fingers at.....

but this brought home how 4 young people have been treated yet two were born here  one came here at 4 months and the other at 17....all are now Australian citz..... ahh one was aboriginal...

none of them felt like they belonged they get stood up by rude people asking them where they come from...some even get things thrown at them.. ...........

it was funny and thought provoking.

and made me realise that although I would never treat anyone like that... so many people do....its appalling...

shameful really..

we all need to grow up raven....yep all of us   



stop looking at each other as if they are the enemy....

the young Sudanese man  was more than charming 



they did a small skit in the town of Woy Woy... it was for real all 4 of them stood on the footpath with a stand that read Yong  that was his real name  was running for the Mayor of Woy Woy...they were trying to hand out voting leaflets....well the amount of people who just walked past with frozen looks on their faces..

they would have to be embarrassed when they see  the show.....

everyone in the group was polite   would you like a leaflet sir.. no thanks...grrr..it was cringeworthy..

the guy in charge a comedian  made fun of it though he was very good.....at putting whitey in his place....lol


if you can find it somewhere on the web   give it a watch raven.....it will make you smile for sure..as well as cringe.