First Nations Australians have referred to as for TV chef Jamie Oliver to withdraw his kids’s ebook from sale, saying it features a “damaging stereotype of First Nations folks and experiences.”
The British TV chef and creator has apologised for the offence he has induced to indigenous Australians together with his kids’s ebook Billy and the Epic Escape.
The Guardian newspaper reports that the the book’s subplot has a young First Nations girl living in foster care in an indigenous group close to Alice Springs who’s stolen by the ebook’s villain.
The Nationwide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Schooling Company (Natsiec) has referred to as the story “damaging, disrespectful, accusing Oliver of contributing to the “erasure, trivialisation, and stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences.” They’ve referred to as for the withdrawal of the ebook.
Oliver has instructed The Guardian he’s “devastated” by the offence he has induced and has issued an apology, as have his publishers Penguin Home Random Home UK (PRH UK). Nonetheless, they haven’t but dedicated to withdrawing the ebook from sale.
