Journalist was dismissed three days into five-day casual radio contract in December 2023
Beginning Monday, journalist Antoinette Lattouf will take her unlawful dismissal case against the ABC to court, after the broadcaster dismissed her from a casual Sydney radio job in December 2023 three days into a five-day contract.
On Friday the court released a number of documents which included a list of emails between Buttrose and Anderson.But the list of dozens of emails showed the flow of communication between the chair and the MD in the hours leading up to Lattouf’s sacking after her shift on Wednesday 20 December. The new documents revealed there was a key difference of opinion over whether Lattouf was told by her ABC radio manager not to post anything about Israel/Palestine on social media or was told to only post factual information, a point the Fair Work Commission made last year.
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