Like Stan Grant, every Indigenous journalist needs to feel that their workplace will support them properly | Rhianna Patrick

Ask any Indigenous person with a public social media account about racist abuse online, and you’ll find it isn’t new.

However, what is unique is writing an article about how you felt unsupported by the media organisation you work for while you were being subjected to an avalanche of racist trolling and inaccurate media coverage.

On Monday night, well known Wiradjuri ABC journalist Stan Grant walked away from hosting panel discussion program Q+A.

While the ABC managing director, David Anderson, sent an internal email over the weekend apologising to Grant for a lack of public support, it…