AUSTRALIAN SOAP HOME & AWAY IS RACIST CLAIMS ACTOR

February 17, 2012

Oh dear.. looks like it’s all kicking off over in Summer Bay. Via The Telegraph Home and Away actor Jay Laga’aia has accused the show of racism in an angry Twitter rant, saying he was dropped because the series already had a  character of ethnic background. Laga’aia, an actor of Samoan descent who played the Rev Elijah Johnson, backed  calls for commercial television to end its “white Australia”   policy. “As someone who lost his job on H&A because they couldn’t write two  ethnics that weren’t together, I’d […]