Sacked radio host Antoinette Lattouf’s unlawful termination claim against the ABC remains unresolved after a mediation hearing on Thursday, with the journalist vowing to continue her fight against “racism”, and to defend her right to “free speech”. Lattouf claims she was unlawfully sacked on December 20 as a fill-in radio host for ABC Sydney due […]
Read MorePakistan launches retaliatory airstrikes on Iran, as conflict spreads
Islamabad: Pakistan’s air force has launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iran allegedly targeting militant positions, an attack that killed at least nine people and further raised tensions between the neighbouring nations and in the region. The strikes in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province follow Iran’s attack on Tuesday on Pakistani soil, that killed two children in […]
Read More‘The fight continues’: Lattouf versus ABC hearing ends in stalemate
Antoinette Lattouf’s unlawful termination case against the ABC will continue after the sacked journalist said a resolution could not be reached by her and the organisation’s lawyers in a mediation hearing. “The case didn’t resolve today, but the fight continues, and I’m willing and prepared to fight for as long as it takes,” she told […]
Read MoreABC ‘threw me under the bus’, says Lattouf
21 January 2024, The Age, by Megan Gorrey and Calum Jaspan: Former ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf claims she was targeted by an ‘‘orchestrated attack’’ aimed at ruining her reputation and muffling other journalists after she was sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza.
Read MoreABC federal politics reporter Nour Haydar resigns from Canberra role over the media organisation’s Israel-Gaza coverage
A high-profile political journalist in ABC’s Parliament House bureau has resigned over the national broadcaster’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Nour Haydar, who joined the ABC as a cadet in 2017 before rising to the ranks as a political reporter in Canberra in 2019, has featured prominently across the broadcaster’s online, radio and TV channels […]
Read MoreABC discriminates against non-Anglo staff, says Antoinette Lattouf
11 January 2024, The Australian, James Madden: Journalist Antoinette Lattouf, dumped in December from her fill-in presenter role on ABC radio after posting a series of inflammatory social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war, claims the ABC is an unsafe workplace, alleges she was sacked because of her ethnicity and says the taxpayer-funded broadcaster systemically discriminates against people of colour.
Read More‘Catastrophic’: Hundreds more Palestinians killed as Israel pursues Hamas in south Gaza
KEY POINTS Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities, leaving 350 Palestinians dead. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells Israeli minister Israel must do more to protect civilians. UN aid chief sees signs that Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza could open. Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will turn Beirut ‘into […]
Read MoreSTC performer dons Palestinian keffiyeh for her family at curtain call
Actor Violette Ayad, who stars in Oil at the Sydney Theatre Company, donned a Palestinian keffiyeh headscarf during the curtain call of the show at the Wharf Theatre on Wednesday night and has vowed to wear it every night of the season. Ayad, an Australian-born actor with Lebanese and Palestinian parents, has family who have […]
Read MoreSilence on Hamas violence towards women is shocking
Ariela Bard articulated what has been clearly apparent for all thoughtful citizens to see, which is essentially the application of a devastatingly parallel universe moral framework when the nation of Israel is concerned (“Feminists fall silent in wake of Hamas barbarity”, 7/12). As she noted, it is simply extraordinary that leftist and activist feminists – […]
Read MoreTerrorism becomes a matter of opinion at Nine newspapers
7 December 2023, The Australian, by Sophie Elsworth: Editors at The Sydney Morning Herald disputed references to Hamas’s mass rapes and killing of children on October 7 in an opinion column and demanded changes to align with its editorial position that the terror group’s crimes have not been fully proven, a freelance arts writer says.
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