‘A waste of taxpayers’ money’: Fair Work Commission rules on Antoinette Lattouf’s ABC case
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that Antoinette Lattouf was dismissed by the ABC.
Per news.com.au, in a statement issued on Monday, the Fair Work Commission said the presenter was terminated by the public broadcaster when she was taken off air during a five-day freelance stint at ABC Sydney late last year after sharing a social media post accusing Israel as using starvation as a “weapon of war”.
The ABC’s claims that Lattouf was not fired, but simply taken off air as she “failed or refused to comply with directions that she not post on social media about matters of controversy during the short period she was presenting,” were dismissed.
Fair Work Commission deputy president, Gerard Boyce, said ABC’s chief content officer, Chris Oliver-Taylor, “made the ultimate decision to take [Lattouf] ‘off air.'”
Let’s face it: ABC is a political broadcaster of the Labor, Greens and Teal parties. I would not have a problem with this if ABC were a private enterprise and survived by a commercial venture. It is not. It’s taxpayer-funded. And as such, I zealously say, Defund the ABC [from the taxpayers]
Worth remembering why the ABC did what they did. They were bullied into this action by a secret WhatsApp group.