4 Dec 2019

Otago Daily Times cartoon sparks calls for anti-racism training

From Morning Report, 8:43 am on 4 December 2019

The Otago Daily Times is being told to make a substantial donation to the Red Cross in Samoa after being slammed for a cartoon considered racist, heartless and insensitive.

The paper has been forced to apologise for publishing a cartoon that jokes about the Samoa measles outbreak which has claimed 55 lives - most of them young children.

The cartoon sparked an immediate backlash online.

Hamish Cardwell has more.