Radio personality Amanda Keller has accused her breakfast rival Ben Fordham and conservative commentator Alan Jones of 'whipping up' the anti-lockdown riots that resulted in clashes with police around Australia.
Sydney's city centre was a scene of chaos on Saturday afternoon as 3,500 protesters stormed the streets to denounce the restrictions.
Riot control horses were required to control the crowds and 5,500 reports were made to police, with 63 people so far arrested for defying a public health order.
Keller, the co-host of breakfast on WSFM, suggested Fordham, her 2GB rival, and his predecessor Alan Jones, now on Sky News, were responsible for making people angry enough to riot.
'There are a lot of people who are frustrated with this lockdown, of course they are, but there's a lot of people responsible for whipping up this up: people on other radio stations,' she said.
Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting Fordham or Jones whipped up anti-lockdown protests, with the rally organised mainly on social media by conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers who even dispute the existence of Covid-19.
Both media personalities have questioned the lockdown policies but not denied the danger posed by the disease itself or told anyone to disobey public health orders.
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Radio personality Amanda Keller has accused her breakfast rival Ben Fordham and conservative commentator Alan Jones of 'whipping up' anti-lockdown riots
Keller's co-host Brendan Jones asked: 'Which other radio stations?'
Keller replied: 'I think Ben Fordham's been saying, "This lockdown's ridiculous."
'The Sky presenters, Alan Jones, etcetera, "Why are we having this lockdown?"
'It's counterproductive. It whips all this up.'
Keller likened Sydney's anti-lockdown protestors with Americans who rioted for Donald Trump in January 2021 at the Capitol building in Washington DC in a bid to stop the Electoral College from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the November presidential election.
'It's like looking at Trump rallies,' she said.
Jones then brought up Alan Jones's controversial comments ahead of the December 2005 Cronulla riots in Sydney's south.
'It's not like Alan Jones to whip up a riot of sorts, not like Cronulla 2005,' he said.
Sydney's city centre was a scene of chaos on Saturday afternoon as hundreds of protesters stormed the streets to denounce the restrictions. Riot control horses were required to control the crowds and 5,500 reports were made to police, with 63 people so far arrested (including this man, pictured) for defying a public health order
The Australian Communications and Media Authority in 2007 found Alan Jones had vilified people of Middle Eastern ethnicity and had encouraged violence.
Last week, two days before the Saturday riots, Fordham slammed the lockdowns as an 'easy option' for
