The Seven Network has taken the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to court over the watchdog's ruling that a segment on the breakfast TV show Sunrise about the adoption of Indigenous children provoked contempt of Indigenous Australians.



In March the assistant minister for children and families at the time, David Gillespie, raised the prospect of non-Indigenous families being able to adopt or care for Indigenous children facing neglect or abuse.

Sunrise host Samantha Armytage spoke to a panel consisting of right wing commentator Prue MacSween and radio host Ben Davis, neither of whom are Indigenous, about the topic.

In the segment MacSween said that putting Indigenous children with non-Indigenous families might be right because "just like the first Stolen Generation where a lot of children were taken because it was for their wellbeing, we need to do it again perhaps".

The segment resulted in a large protest outside the Sunrise studio in Sydney, and a while later Sunrise ultimately held a second panel on the topic, with Indigenous experts.