Speaking with fellow reporter Ben Fordham, Kennerly said she was "just stating a fact" when ABC radio host Yumi Stynes accused Kennerly of racism after the presenter spoke out against child abuse statistics in rural Australian communities.
Kerri-Anne told Fordham that she had not made a mistake while discussing the statistics of sexual assault in the Outback.
"She [Stynes] mentioned it happens in our community... but it is rampant out there. Alcohol is at the base of it and we have to find a way to protect these children,
"If we do not protect these children that leads onto youth suicide, paedophilia, abuse of children creates so many horrible division in life and their life is never the same.
"I can only assume that Yumi doesn't know that it is a fact of life because I never made a racist comment."
On Monday, Kennerly and Stynes joined the Studio 10 panel to discuss the Invasion Day protests that took place Saturday.
Kennerly started the segment by calling out the protesters, saying: "OK, the 5,000 people who went through the streets making their points known, saying how inappropriate the day is... has any single one of those people been out to the Outback, where children, babies, five-year-olds, are being raped?"
This is when Stynes called out Kennerly's comment and stated that the veteran presenter was coming off as 'racist': "That is not even faintly true, Kerri-Anne."
Yumi continued: "You're sounding quite racist right now."