{"id":2398,"date":"2026-03-19T20:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:16:34","slug":"greens-too-little-too-late-from-regulator-as-sandilands-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/greens-too-little-too-late-from-regulator-as-sandilands-axed\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens: Too little too late from regulator as Sandilands axed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Greens spokesperson for communications, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKyle Sandilands built a career pushing the limits. Today, that finally caught up with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSandilands has made millions off of spouting his misogynistic, racist and homophobic views on Australian airwaves. This vile show trashed our airwaves for long enough so it\u2019s good to see ARN finally kick it to the curb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr Sandilands&#8217; statement today reads like a three-year-old&#8217;s tantrum, showing what happens when a man child is held accountable for his actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe has shown little remorse or care for the impact his on air behaviour and content has had on women and the broader community for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver his 25 years on air, we know the regulator ACMA received countless complaints about the inappropriate content aired on this show. It is an indictment on ACMA that ARN acted to end his contract before the regulator took any real enforcement action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cACMA took far too long to act on this vile and dangerous content. This has once again shown that ACMA is a toothless tiger. Despite clear community expectations, the regulator has failed to hold broadcasters like Sandilands to account while their deeply inappropriate and dangerous content continued on our airwaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople afforded platforms in this country, like Kyle Sandilands, have enormous influence in shaping public attitudes. When harmful or degrading commentary is normalised, it sends the wrong message.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens spokesperson for communications, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young: \u201cKyle Sandilands built a career pushing the limits. Today, that finally caught up with him. \u201cSandilands has made millions off of spouting his misogynistic, racist and homophobic views on Australian airwaves. This vile show trashed our airwaves for long enough so it\u2019s good to see ARN finally kick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/greens-too-little-too-late-from-regulator-as-sandilands-axed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens: Too little too late from regulator as Sandilands axed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}