Pressure from ‘higher up’ at ABC to sack Antoinette Lattouf from very first day on air, court hears

Journalist Antoinette Lattouf outside the federal court in Sydney. Lattouf was dismissed from hosting ABC Radio’s Sydney Mornings program in December 2023. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

There was pressure from “higher up” in the ABC to sack Antoinette Lattouf from the very first day she was on air, Lattouf’s line manager has told the federal court.

Elizabeth Green, the ABC manager who had approached Lattouf for the temporary hosting role, told the court she had “tried to stop them” from firing Lattouf but that “there was pressure coming from higher up”.