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Your say: week beginning June 30
Ditching payroll tax, government failures on poverty, and is ‘Jewish lobby’ really a fair term to use? An edited selection of ...
‘Nobody understands the rules’: ABC social media policy a ‘farce’
Gavin Fang, an ABC veteran of more than two decades who was appointed editorial director in January 2024, will draft a ...
Media Diary: Inside Seven’s secret plan to sack most of its brightest – and best-paid – stars
The broadcaster’s loyal Perth news hosts, Susannah Carr and Rick Ardon – who just this year celebrated their 40th anniversary ...
Antoinette Lattouf's unlawful sacking exposed the power of lobbying on the Australian media
On Wednesday, the Federal Cout ruled that the ABC had unlawfully sacked journalist Antoinette Lattouf, in December 2023, for ...
How does the Lattouf judgment affect employees’ freedom of speech?
Lattouf’s case was mounted on the basis that her employment contract was unlawfully terminated, in breach of section 772 of ...
How the ABC can fix the ‘Lattouf problem’ for good
To uphold its charter of impartiality, the broadcaster should issue a general directive that no staff make controversial ...