Antoinette Lattouf judgment underlines role of News Corp’s deadline in ABC management’s ‘panic’

Antoinette Lattouf has been awarded $70,000 in compensation after the federal court found the ABC unlawfully terminated her employment on Sydney radio amid complaints about her views on the Israel-Gaza war. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

There was another source of pressure on the ABC content chief when he hastily removed Antoinette Lattouf from air, the federal court has found.

Apart from a coordinated campaign by the pro-Israel lobby which had ABC management in a “panic”, there was the looming deadline of Rupert Murdoch’s broadsheet, a newspaper which is consistently hostile to the ABC.