Australian media outlet apologises after outrage over 'racist' advertisement

FILE PHOTO: A sticker of the Australian Aboriginal Flag along with the word "RESPECT" is pictured on a structure at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a site of protest since 1972, in Canberra, Australia, May 4, 2022. Picture taken May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A major Australian media outlet apologised on Thursday after a full page advertisement in its daily newspaper was called out as racist for its depiction of the country's Indigenous people.

Australians will vote in a referendum later this year on whether they support altering the constitution to include a "Voice to Parliament", an Indigenous committee that can advise parliament on matters affecting its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.