News - World: A major Australian media house has published a full-page "racist' advertisement disparaging the country’s Indigenous people in its daily newspaper.

The Australian Financial Review owned by Nine Entertainment - a media conglomerate - was widely slammed on Thursday as "racist" and "discriminatory" for its derogatory treatment of the country’s native population.

This comes at a time when Australians will be voting in a referendum later this year on whether they support altering the constitution to include a "Voice to Parliament," an Indigenous committee that can advise the parliament on matters affecting its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The advertisement in the daily depicts Independent Australian MP Kate Chaney sitting on the knee of her father, Wesfarmers Chairman Michael Chaney, while he hands money to Thomas Mayo, a leader of the Indigenous population, who appears to be standing below him.

Source: Press TV