A COURT has found News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt breached the Racial Discrimination Act.
In a Federal Court judgment handed down today Justice Mordy Bromberg said he was satisfied that fair-skinned Aboriginal people were reasonably likely to have been "offended, insulted, humiliated or intimidated by the imputations conveyed" in newspaper articles written by Bolt.
He found the articles by Bolt, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, contravened the Racial Discrimination Act.
The articles, which were published in 2009, were headlined "It's so hip to be black" and "White fellas in the black".
In his judgment, Justice Bromberg said the imputations conveyed by the articles were plainly calculated to convey a message about the race, ethnicity or colour of fair-skinned Aboriginal people, including whether those people were sufficiently of Aboriginal race, colour or ethnicity to be identified as Aboriginal.
"I am satisfied that Mr Bolt both understood and intended that imputations of that kind were conveyed by the newspaper articles he wrote," he said.
He found that Mr Bolt and The Herald and Weekly Times had "engaged in conduct which contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act".