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In September 2011 Channel 7 network broadcast a report featuring journalist Tim Noonan and writer and adventurer Paul Raffaele visiting Brazil’s Suruwaha tribe and describing them as child murderers, “Stone Age” relics, and “one of the worst human rights violators in the world”.

Survival International, the global movement for tribal people’s rights, sent a complaint to Channel 7 outlining the many errors and distortions in the report. After the channel refused to correct the inaccuracies in the program, Survival filed a complaint at the Australian Communications and Media Authority, who opened a formal investigation.

In September 2012 the network was found guilty by the press regulator of serious violations of the broadcasting code. The ACMA ruled that the Channel was guilty of breaking its racism clause – having “provoked or perpetuated intense dislike, serious contempt or severe ridicule against the Suruwaha people on the grounds of … national or ethnic origin … race [or] religion”. It also ruled that the Channel was guilty of broadcasting inaccurate material.

Channel 7 sought judicial review, but in June 2014 the Federal Court upheld the ruling.