how anyone can claim it was in the public interests is beyond me, this article sums it up brilliantly
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/31/nova-peris-is-too-successful-for-mainstream-aus...
Nova Peris is too successful for mainstream Australia, so she had to be torn down
Nova Peris was cleared by the Australian Sports Commission, but that doesn’t bother the press. She doesn’t fit the cliches about Aboriginal women, so her personal emails were fair game
There are many scandals involving Indigenous people raging around Australia today. From the continual and increasing number of children being removed from their families, Black deaths in custody, third world life expectancy, an epidemic of suicides and many more. All of these deserve front page coverage across the nation, but that’s not the case. The only scandal involving Indigenous people receiving that kind of attention is the one started by the NT News about Senator Nova Peris.
Why was Peris targeted by the NT News, and then smacked about by the News Corp stable? I’ll get to that in a moment.
As reported in Guardian Australia, the Australian Sports Commission has said “an independent audit of the $445,000 given to Athletics Australia for a program at the centre of allegations against Peris found no misuse of the money”. No misuse of money, no suggestion Peris had done anything wrong, no rorting of the taxpayer.
