A week after its managing director was sacked by his board, the Australian Christain Lobby is facing fights on all sides. And there’s an internal battle to fix it.
The Facebook post went up at 4.56pm on Friday afternoon. After five years as the firebrand managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Martyn Iles had some news. He had been sacked.
“There is no question of misconduct,” he wrote. “The board has reviewed ACL’s strategic direction and decided I am not the right person to lead the revised strategy.” It took the weekend, and half of Monday, for ACL’s leaders to react to the news. The first communication came in the form of a three-minute selfie video from its national politics director, Wendy Francis, that confirmed Iles was “moving on” and said the lobby group’s mission had not changed.
“I write reluctantly following Martyn’s email,” Wallace wrote. “I apologise for the delay in this official response, but we on the board did not want to act reflexively to what has been a huge disappointment.”Graham Tidy
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