The News Corp journalist, who has a platform on Sky News’ After Dark, as well as in the Murdoch tabloids around the country, blamed six “poor, outer-suburban areas in Melbourne’s north and south-east where more than a third of residents were born overseas, in countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Iraq, China and Vietnam” and said “many of the sick are probably from immigrant families”.
“Just what kind of families are involved, neither the government nor the Ethnic Communities Council will say,” he wrote.
In June he followed it up with more on the theme in pieces headlined “Multiculturalism made Victoria vulnerable to coronavirus” and “Virus thrives in multiculturalism” – which some readers complained were not only inaccurate and unfair, but offensive and prejudicial to those who are from diverse backgrounds, the press council adjudication said.