Key occasions
How complaints began and Lattouf’s impartiality was questioned
Amanda Meade
The contract between Lattouf and the ABC for one week of shifts on the Mornings program on ABC Radio Sydney in December 2023 is being dissected by Neil SC.
Now Neil is taking Justice Rangiah by the chronology of occasions.
Lattouf offered her first present on the Monday 18 December and 90 minutes after she got here off air, the ABC started to obtain emails complaining about Ms Lattouf, Neil stated.
Anderson forwarded a few of these complaints to the chief content material officer Chris Oliver-Taylor and performing editorial director Simon Melkman with the request to research the matter and supply recommendation.
“Can we ensure that Antoinette is not and has not been posting anything that would suggest she is not impartial,” Neil stated Anderson wrote in an electronic mail.
“I am concerned her public views may mean that she is in conflict with our own editorial policies.”
Anderson additionally requested why Lattouf was chosen as a stand-in host.
Lattouf ‘jumbled chronology of occasions and omitted salient occasions’, ABC barrister argues
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Justice Darryl Rangiah has opened proceedings and warned the general public to not report or display screen shot the printed of the listening to on the federal court docket’s YouTube channel.
The ABC’s barrister Ian Neil SC is first as much as current his opening assertion. Neil says he’ll unveil the “true sequence of all the salient events” main as much as Lattouf’s termination.
The applicant’s opening assertion “jumbled the chronology of events and omitted salient events”, Neil stated.
Neil tells the court docket he’s initially going to look at the contract between Lattouf and the ABC.
5 issues we’ve realized this week in court docket
Simply to carry everybody up to the mark, Lattouf was cross-examined for 5 gruelling hours over two days, right here you possibly can examine 5 issues we’ve got realized from her generally tense, generally tearful testimony.
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Three prime ABC executives scheduled to provide proof
Anderson is the outgoing managing director who’s ending up subsequent month after a 35-year profession on the broadcaster, throughout which he rose from the mailroom to mahogany row.
He was appointed for a second time period on 1 July 2023, and was speculated to be within the function till July 2028 however resigned months after Kim Williams joined the ABC as chair.
He isn’t the one one of many ABC witnesses to be caught up within the trial regardless of having both left or be within the technique of leaving.
Williams’ predecessor Ita Buttrose, who left the ABC nearly a yr in the past, is ready to provide her proof on Friday.
Content material chief Chris Oliver-Taylor, who scheduled to seem after Anderson, can be nearly out the door.
What we will anticipate in court docket as we speak
Amanda Meade
The Antoinette Lattouf v ABC listening to continues as we speak in Sydney’s federal court docket with the ABC managing director, David Anderson, the subsequent witness to be referred to as.
The listening to schedule is already a day behind, the court docket was advised yesterday, as Lattouf’s cross-examination lasted 5 hours and prolonged over two days.
Lattouf’s barrister Oshie Fagir stated:
The social gathering’s schedule has been utterly exploded. We’re a day behind after two days.
Lattouf was taken off-air three days right into a five-day informal contract in December 2023 after she posted on social media concerning the Israel-Gaza struggle, which the ABC stated was a failure to comply with a route from a supervisor to not publish.
The federal court docket heard yesterday that Lattouf disputes that she was given a route, claiming her supervisor Elizabeth Inexperienced merely recommended she stick with factual posts solely.
Lattouf took her case to the Honest Work Fee, which discovered final yr she had been sacked however didn’t rule on whether or not it was an illegal termination.
The ABC argued on the fee that Lattouf had not been sacked as a result of she was paid for the complete 5 days of her contract.
Inexperienced’s proof is scheduled for Thursday.
Welcome
Amanda Meade
Hello, I’m Amanda Meade, media correspondent, I’m watching day three of the Antoinette Lattouf v ABC unfair termination trial as we speak.
We are going to carry you all of the proof because it unfolds from 10.15am although to 4.15pm.
Witnesses as we speak embody two ABC chiefs David Anderson and chief content material officer Chris Oliver-Taylor, each of whom are on the verge of leaving the ABC after early resignations.
