Kyle Sandilands’ emotional argument about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has been censored by network bosses.
The KIIS FM presenter was in full flight on Thursday morning, clashing dramatically with newsreader Brooklyn Ross on air over funding for Indigenous Australians.
‘We have to actually give [Indigenous Australians] money and look after them,’ said Ross.
‘Nah, bulls**t!’ exclaimed Sandilands, before launching into an argument about how funds should be allocated.
‘How about educating people and giving people the chance to build their own life like the rest of us did?’ he said.
Kyle Sandilands’ (pictured) emotional argument about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was censored by radio network bossesĀ on Thursday morning
The on-air clash came just moments after large portions of Sandilands’ comments were censored.
Sandilands strenuously objected to an alleged $34billion being allocated to Indigenous Australians and demanded to know why the money wasn’t having a more positive impact.
‘No one’s really putting all that $34billion into fixing the real problem. They’re painting houses and giving them this and that [without fixing the real problems].Ā
‘We’ll rename Fraser Island!’ Sandilands mocked, referring to theĀ island reverting to its traditional name K’gari, before attacking Welcome to Country traditions.
In particular, he singled out Channel Ten’s left-leaning current affairs show The Project for acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land during broadcasts.Ā
‘Look, The Project’s thanking people from the past [for] using their land,’ before declaring, ‘These things, they’re s**t!’
Sandilands strenuously objected to an alleged $34billion being allocated to Indigenous Australians and demanded to know why the money wasn’t having a more positive impact. (Pictured: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese)
‘No one’s better than anyone else. If they’re treated worse, that’s an issue,’ Sandilands continued.
‘Yep, I agree with that,’ said co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, who had largely remained silent amid Sandilands’ outburst.
‘Thank you, Jackie,’ said Sandilands sarcastically. ‘Jackie’s finally popped up.’Ā
‘I understand you don’t want to get involved in it,’ conceded the 52-year-old father-of-one. ‘[An] angry man and a gay man [Ross] arguing.’
‘And both of us white!’ he added, to laughter from Henderson.Ā
The discussion comes amid fierce debate about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, with Australians expected to case their vote in a referendum between October and December.
Both sides of the debate have been heavily campaigning in recent weeks, with controversial SenatorĀ Lidia Thorpe pushing for a No vote.
She has said she will settle for nothing less than a treaty which recognised the sovereignty of First Nations peoples over Australia.Ā
The on-air clash came just moments after large portions of Sandilands’ comments were censored. (Pictured: KIIS FM newsreader Brooklyn Ross)
Sandilands’ comments come just one week after KIIS FM bosses heavily censored celebrity chef Pete Evans during an interview on The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Evans, who destroyed his own media career by peddling misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic and sharing a ‘racist’ meme, appeared on KIIS FM’s top-rating breakfast show last Thursday in an attempt to clear his name.
Calling into the show from his remote property in north-eastern NSW, the former My Kitchen Rules star doubled-down on his opposition to Covid vaccines, masks and social distancing.
He also cast doubt upon Covid rapid antigen tests and defended his claims about the ‘healing’ abilities of the $15,000 BioCharger lamps he was fined for promoting in 2020.
However most of what he said was beeped out by the station’s censor.
Listeners later called into the show to weigh in on whether Evans should be censored by mainstream media, with the vast majority declaring it was time to ‘un-cancel’ him.
One fan said Evans should be un-cancelled because he is a ‘real man’ who ‘stands up’ for his beliefs.
Another alleged that Evans had ‘gone and done the research’ and ‘wasn’t just talking s**t’, and therefore shouldn’t be barred from sharing his opinions publicly, even if they are viewed as scientifically incorrect.
The comments come just one week after KIIS bosses heavily censored celebrity chef Pete Evans [pictured] during an interview