Ita Buttrose took a dim view of proceedings at the Antoinette Lattouf unfair dismissal case.
As Ita Buttrose was wheeled into the courtroom, her wide eyes scanning the court, it was clear she did not like what she saw.
The former ABC chair brought no pleasure to the task of explaining her role in the termination of casual radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf in December 2023, such as it was, so she might as well have a clean desk.James Brickwood But she was certainly agitated at the time she started receiving the complaints as to how a person who had posted so extensively about the conflict had been hired in the first place.
“I’m asking, ‘What’s going on, has Antoinette been replaced?’” she said. “If I wanted somebody removed, I would be franker than that.”But Buttrose, who was schooled in frankness by media tycoon Kerry Packer, was unruffled.But Anderson had already resolved to support Oliver-Taylor’s decision to allow Lattouf to ride out her contract when this exchange took place, and he reiterated this to Buttrose in an email that described the process as a “managed exit”.
Though it has not been admitted into evidence, it may be reasonably inferred that she immediately lost the end of her sticky tape and spent the next 34 minutes furiously scratching for it with her fingertips.
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