SBS staff have pleaded with the board to appoint someone other than a white Anglo man as news director to reflect the station’s multicultural charter.
Since 1978 the director of news has always been a white man, with the exception of Irene Buschtedt between 1993 and 1995.
With the retirement of veteran news director Jim Carroll due in December, having been in the post since 2013, staff say the board should seize the opportunity to make a cultural change.