The Community and Public Sector Union held a merit-based selection process and chose the political editor of 7.30
“Her long-term membership across both unions means Laura is well placed to understand the frontline challenges and concerns experienced by many ABC workers including but not limited to their industrial concerns.”some union members when she rejected the MEAA process because it “would be detrimental to simply be perceived as representing the interests of one sector of our workforce”.“I am a 42-year veteran of first the AJA and then the MEAA,” she said.
The winner of the MEAA ballot was Melbourne business reporter Dan Ziffer, but Indigenous journalist Dan Bourchier, who is leading the coverage of the referendum and the voice to parliament, has self-nominated.
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