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If you want to understand how the ABC got into this mess, it’s all explained in my recently published book. Available here: scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/… .
Josh Bornstein
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Josh Bornstein
@JoshBBornstein
employment and industrial relations lawyer, honorary adjunct associate professor at UTS, tribunal member, author of ‘Working for the Brand’.
- It’s a privilege to represent Antoinette Lattouf in her unlawful termination case against the ABC which has now been expanded. We claim that the sacking was based on both political opinion and race.
- Will The Australian run a front page apology to Brittany Higgins now?
- Legal discovery reveals Linda Reynolds’ leaks to Janet Albrechtsen. news.com.au/national/legal…
- The Fair Work Commission has decided that the ABC sacked @antoinette_news . It has comprehensively rejected the ABC’s jurisdictional challenge to her unlawful termination case which can now proceed to the Federal Court.
- Dutton: -boycotted the apology to the Stolen Generations; -called for white farmers in South Africa to get special attention to ensure that they got to Australia; -said Melbourne wasn’t safe because of African gangs; & -is calling for a ban on Palestinian refugees.
- Laura Tingle should be allowed to express a view at a writer’s festival, for goodness’ sake. I trust that she won’t be Lattoufed.
- Kudos to @ABCmediawatch for highlighting how Australian media refuse to treat the lives of Palestinians with equal weight to those of Israelis .
- As a Jewish academic, I have not experienced antisemitism at Sydney Uni
- A deep dive reveals that ABC management now admit that @antoinette_news did not breach any policies and didn’t contravene a directive. So why was she sacked ?
- I have to disagree. People ‘singled out’ South Africa’ and campaigned against its apartheid, successfully helping to dismantle that system. On this type of logic, the anti-apartheid movement would be considered racist- against white South Africans!Speaking at the @PressClubAust, Australia’s Attorney General @MarkDreyfusKCMP on whether criticism of Israel is antisemitic: “when people are singling out Israel and applying a standard to Israel that they do not apply to other countries, then potentially there’s antisemitism
00:00 - Having dealt with many successful bullying cases, I’m yet to meet a bully who says that they intended to bully.“The work wasn’t intended to bully”, says Michael Miller, executive chairman of News Corp Australasia in response to Kat Wong’s questioning around whether it was okay for News Corp to bully people like Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Antoinette Lattouf, Brittany Higgins & those in the
00:00 - Folks this is an awful result. That said, winning a referendum is extraordinarily difficult. If it’s not bipartisan, it’s almost fatal. Add to that the fact that this was the first referendum in the post- truth era:, the era of poorly regulated social media.
