The ABC sacked our colleague because of her political opinion and to appease a lobby group, the court found. And they spent more than $1 million on ridiculous defences including the she was never sacked and there is no such thing as a Lebanese race. Time for the ABC to rethink how it treats staff.
Influence has been peddled for a very long time: x.com/jommy_tee/st... Whether prima facie corruption is involved should be investigated.
Do we even need their version of the abc , I’d vote no
Now tell us who the lobbyists were.
www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/acc...
Are the lobbyists disclosed somewhere on that page? That sure is a lot of documents
Here's one that's no longer on the web site. I found it in the Archive: web.archive.org/web/20240128...
Many have been mentioned in evidence and in media. "Lawyers for Israel" is one that springs to mind. Some time spent in research will be rewarding.
It's a David v. Goliath story and the ABC picked the wrong target when they took on #AntoinetteLattouf. We admire her professional integrity and human compassion while her determination and courage in seeing this trial through should be an inspiration to us all. I think she's one amazing woman.
Wait since when was there not a Lebanese race, ffs? 🤦🏻
I really hope she is suing The Australian newspaper
And those responsible need to be held accountable with monetary fines. I’m sick of them wasting my tax dollars in a case where they were clearly wrong.
If they were in-house lawyers the should be fired for wasting public money, if they were contracted in they should be fired for negligence and gross incompetence.
👏👏👏👏👏 But the ABC cut & ran when it was Bruce Lehrmann. Why? Shame shame shame ABC!
Buttrose wasn't Morrison's captain's pick for nothing.
As long as •public coffers buffer racist lobbyists & their puppet journalism • ALP/Lib ministers/politicians bend the knee to said racist lobbyists & • any blame can be laid upon juniors in the managerial order, the same racist lobbyists won't have to hear #TheirABC announce genocide in Palestine.
The ABC managing director (current) has already publicly said the ABC doesn’t need to make any changes - it just needs to actually follow its existing policies and procedures. 🤷🏾👀
And Kim Williams defended what occurred
I’d go so far as to say the ABC management didn’t give a toss about Latouf’s political opinions *except* for and until the organized campaign by the “lobby group” and the pressure from the board. After that it was clear exactly why they suddenly found fault.. 🤷🏾🤦🏾🤪
And who really owns it. #auspol
Didn't the case hedge on whether the ABC suggested Lattouf stop Tweeting about the Israel - Hamas war or ordered that she stop? #auspol
No.
Senior managers were clearly displeased by the appointment of Lattouf but... 'At issue was whether (she) had been given a direction by her manager, Elizabeth Green, not to post on social media or just a suggestion to keep a low profile.' www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
"“I accept Ms Green to be a reliable witness and accept her account of all her discussions with Mr Ahern,” he said. “In summary, Ms Green made it explicitly clear she had not given any direction to Ms Lattouf and had merely provided advice.”
I know what the judge found. I was talking about the issue on which the case was decided.
The ignored due process described in the Enterprise Agreement and so breached the Fair Work Act.
She reposted a news item that the ABC itself had posted/tweeted. Nowhere in her contract did it say that she shouldn't post actual ABC news articles. That they can post about starvation but she can't has to make you wonder why she lost the racism point of the case.
Perhaps she lost on the point of racism because the ABC banned all employees from tweeting their stories.
My mistake. I'd thought I heard she'd quoted a tweet but added her own comment.
The LNP govt went down that path with Blak&Write winner this year, author Ren Wyld. But that was the Qld government making an excuse to cancel the state literary awards and in truth they probably didn't need a reason. Campbell Newman cancelled the literary awards during his reign of destruction.
She was only asked to not post anything controversial. The truth is the truth and that’s what she posted
So why aren't they being punished
And the money taxpayers are being charged for the mismanagement of the ABC . Congratulations to Antoinette standing up against the Jewish Lobby . Next they’ll call the Judge antisemitic .
If only someone could have told them at the time … 🤦♂️
Pissants
Looking at your feed - it looks like you are working in a very unhappy place?
$1m+ could have paid for a lot of public interest journalism
Time for the ABC to rethink how it does journalism!
ABC has become a sad joke. This doesn't surprise me one bit. And fuck Debra OConnell.
That the abc was influenced by a lobby group is poor in general.
And engaged a grubby, dirty tricks campaigner.
Exactly But I would also like to know why Kim Williams intervened directly on behalf of Sandy Gutman aka Austen Tayshus? On multiple occasions At whose behest? And why he got away with it????
Unfortunately, it shows the power of the Jewish/Israeli lobby in the country. That they have direct access to the upper management of the ABC is one thing but being able to have them act of what are basically minor matters is another. This influence needs a full investigation as to why.
Time for some change at the top.
How about some good, old-fashioned heads rolling for the clowns who wasted $1M of taxpayers’ funds at the behest of a what’s app group defending genocide.
This is a very important judgment and a lesson for media outlets, employers, lawyers and others more generally, for so many reasons Congratulations @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social #auspol
And especially a lesson for politicians 👀Looking at you Chris Minns #auspol
It's long past time for ABC employees to look at protesting. their integrity is non existent, it's been eroded over many years. ABC seem to dismiss viewers complaints, it smacks of arrogance but losing the public support is serious. saddened to watch the demise of a trusted "Aunty"
Court decision essentially says the ABC made up awful false DARVO stuff about someone they hired and wasted more than $1 mil to try to justify and defend it. How long and how much might have this DARVO type abuse behaviour against staff been going on there in general ?
Not just how it treats staff, but also how it responds to external pressure from lobbyists.
Time for #abc to sack all their LNP shills including those in "management" positions. What say you Rupert?
“…a lobby group” Come on Michael, define who.
Foreign agents of influence.
@abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social @abcnewsbot.bsky.social how are we now able to trust any news from you about anything from the Middle East? What don’t we yet know about how lobby groups have affected ABC decisions??
I guess asking a bot and a name squatter will get the same response as actually asking the ABC. 🤣
