TV presenter Don Burke accused of sexual harassment spanning decades
TV presenter Don Burke sexually harassed a string of female colleagues throughout his career, a joint investigation by Fairfax Media and the ABC has alleged.
Australia’s entertainment industry has been anticipating a series of revelations about predatory behaviour by powerful figures since the Harvey Weinstein scandal erupted in the US.
Allegations about Burke’s behaviour are the first to be published since campaigners began to work on a dossier of such conduct by different individuals. Women In Media’s Tracey Spicer told the ABC she has heard from 470 people since calling for people’s stories.
Burke denies the allegations.
It looks like a lot more than we thought went on among the gum trees???
This should be criminally investigated and that would include the Channel 9 management and accusations of neglect in their duties. It’s time to eradicate this sexist behaviour once and for all from society and the marketplace
I guess we can all now agree that it is time to say
“hooroo” to Don
No man who can use that amount of latin words for plants can be trusted
Few people at Nine will be able to claim ‘I never knew about this’ as his behaviour was an open secret across the media. In fact, didn’t the Good Weekend or Weekend Oz run a big feature about him only a few years ago that alluded to much of this?
Disappointed but sadly not surprised with the comments attempting to make light of the allegations and the impact on the victims.
I am assuming that the comments making light of this situation are from men. And this goes a long way to explaining why women are scared to come forward with such allegations.
only one word to describe this one DISGUSTING!!!wtf!!
I worked at GTV9 in the late 80s/ early 90s and everyone knew he was like this and he was very difficult to work with. Not a surprise for anyone in TV land