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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade and Ima Caldwell

‘If you buy Kyle, you get Kyle’: Sandilands’ lawyer defends sacked Kiis FM shock jock in Sydney court

Kyle Sandilands arrives at the federal court on Friday for a hearing on allegations he and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson breached their Kiis FM radio contract with ARN.
Kyle Sandilands arrives at the federal court on Friday for a hearing on allegations he and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson breached their Kiis FM radio contract with ARN. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Kyle Sandilands’ conduct may not be “nice” but “if you buy Kyle, you get Kyle”, the federal court has heard in a high-profile legal fight the sacked shock jock describes as “pretty ugly”.

Sandilands’ barrister, Scott Robertson SC, has told the court the allegations about Sandilands’ conduct may “be regarded as serious misconduct for the purposes of employment law”, but they are not “serious misconduct for the purposes of this particular contract”.

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