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Australian state broadcaster ordered to pay extra $150K for unfair sacking of presenter over Gaza post

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Antoinette Lattouf outside court in June 2025. Image – RT.

Australia’s Federal Court has ordered the state broadcaster ABC to pay an additional AUD $150,000 in penalties after unfairly sacking fill-in radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf over a social media post about the Gaza war.

The post was a reshare of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) statement, which accused Israel of using starvation as a tool of war in Gaza.

Justice Darryl Rangiah said the broadcaster caved to “lobbying from pro-Israel groups”, breaching Lattouf’s rights and failing both staff and audiences.

The court had already awarded Lattouf AUD $70,000 in damages, but the judge said a “substantial” extra penalty was necessary to ensure ABC learned from its conduct.

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  1. 150K is not a lot. West is spending hundreds of billions for narrative control. Over a trillion on spying on citizens on behalf of globalists.

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