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This chapter examines the problems of representation when an alleged perpetrator is a person of colour, putting forward an intersectional approach to race and sexual violence. Considering the long history of discrimination against people of colour in the legal system and media, I analyse representations of race and racism in the cases of Andrew Lovett, Majak Daw, and Blake Ferguson. I show how thematising or otherwise drawing attention to race tends to either malign the alleged perpetrator (and all people of colour), or malign the complainant (and all victims/complainants), whether the references are drawn from the court case or not. I show how race-based stereotypes can be evoked indirectly in media reports, portraying people of colour as child-like, irredeemable drunks, or innately criminal.

‘You wouldn’t have made a complaint of rape if it had’ve [sic] been Jason Gram having sex with you, would you? … You see, you didn’t want to have sex with an Aboriginal man, did you?’

—David Grace QC, defence lawyer, trial of Andrew Lovett, July 2011

—Prosecutor Michael Tovey, trial of Andrew Lovett, July 2011

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  1. 1.

    Adam Heuskes , Peter Burgoyne and Michael O’Loughlin (2001), Anthony Laffranchi (2008), Michael Crockett (2008), Brett Stewart (2010), Andrew Lovett (2010–2011), Blake Ferguson (2013–2014), Stephen Milne (2013–2014), Majak Daw (2014–2015), Scott Bolton (2018–2019), Jarryd Hayne (2019—), Jack de Belin (2019—).

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    A recording of the complainant’s police interview was played on Four Corners in 2004 (ABC 2004)—see (Waterhouse-Watson 2012a) for analysis of the program.

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    Images are also clearly not neutral, and convey meanings other than skin colour; however, they are not the subject of this analysis.

  4. 4.

    Another documentary featuring Goodes , The Australian Dream (Gordon 2019), positions Goodes’ experiences of racism and his stance against it in the context of systemic racism and historical injustice against Indigenous Australians (Waterhouse-Watson 2019a).

  5. 5.

    The error in the original transcript was corrected the next day.

  6. 6.

    Chaminda Vaas is a former Sri Lankan international men’s cricketer.

  7. 7.

    Although supposedly founded by a group of young Sudanese men, according to police, it was never predominantly one ethnicity and the majority of offenders were Australian-born (Koziol 2017).

  8. 8.

    The Australian Press Council (2008) upheld a complaint that the Australian newspaper incorrectly implied that the perpetrators were part of a Sudanese gang, failing to report that the two men charged were Caucasian.

  9. 9.

    Court reporter for The Age Adam Cooper said that while he had wanted to report on this detail, the newspaper’s legal department advised against, as there was a possibility it would identify Katie. He added that anyone who knew about the book discussion would already know who Katie was. I have elected to analyse it here as it is already in the public domain through the Herald Sun .

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    It should be noted that although Robinson is innocent, the complainant is forced to accuse Robinson by her father, who routinely sexually abuses her.

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Waterhouse-Watson, D. (2019). The (In)Visibility of Race. In: Football and Sexual Crime, from the Courtroom to the Newsroom. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33705-6_6

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