First Nations satire show airs on ABC
The ABC launched Always Was Tonight on January 21, a new current affairs satire special timed to air in the week leading up to January 26.
This 30-minute program, produced by the ABC’s Indigenous unit, focused on reframing the week’s news through a First Nations viewpoint.
Sports journalist and Gamilaroi man Tony Armstrong anchored the show, tasked with what the broadcaster described as an attempt to “decolonise the news.”
Sports journalist and Gamilaroi man Tony Armstrong anchored the show.
Brooke Blurton (Noongar–Yamatji), from The Bachelorette Australia, also joined the lineup.
The show saw Armstrong joke it was “an honour to be the first black face fronting a comedy show on the ABC since Chris Lilley”
“Tonight we’re giving the colony a colonoscopy,” he said. “This show is black, it’s cracked and it wants its land back.
“The Welcome to Country has been attacked by racists, degraded by politicians, and used as fuel for the culture wars,” he added.
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce, Katter’s Australian Party leader Bob Katter and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also copped it.
Armstrong ended the show on a serious note with a message about the incarceration rate among Indigenous children.
- If you missed it, the show can be watched on ABC iview.
