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Culture, Islam, Law, Media

The ABC must hold the line against Lattouf

Antoinette Lattouf is a type. We all know what that type is. I have already posted several comments on the case she is running against the ABC with the help of the leftist law company Maurice Blackburn.

That type is the insufferable self-entitled young woman who does not think she owes it to anyone to follow the rules of the organization she works for. I thought the self-declared Lebanese Muslim was another irritating Gen Z type who couldn’t keep her mouth shut. She just had to give her opinion on a matter that was off limits for ABC employees. But Antoinette is suffering arrested development. She is older than the Gen Z age bracket.

Now Lattouf has offered the ABC a settlement via her lawyers which they describe as ‘modest’. The offer is in the headline to the SMH article below.

As I have said before; the ABC must not back down in this straightforward case of an employee flagrantly ignoring the rules of her employment. It would set a precedent for every self-entitled, young woman who thinks the world must know and benefit from her views.

For once, show some backbone ABC management

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Lattouf’s ‘modest’ ABC offer: $85,000, replacement shifts and an apology

Calum Jaspan, Sydney Morning Herald, July 14, 2024
Compensation of $85,000, a public apology and reinstatement as a fill-in radio presenter are the three items on Antoinette Lattouf’s wish list from the ABC, should the national broadcaster want to avoid a costly trial in the Federal Court.

Lattouf’s legal team, led by Maurice Blackburn’s head of employment law, Josh Bornstein, wrote to the ABC last week offering a compromise settlement after mediation between the parties failed last month.

The message from ABC chief content officer Chris Oliver-Taylor confirming Lattouf would be stood down.
The message from ABC chief content officer Chris Oliver-Taylor confirming Lattouf would be stood down. CREDIT: MARIJA ERCEGOVAC

“The offer is modest and is made on an open basis. It is a compromise on what our client could be awarded at trial if she is successful, particularly having regard to any penalties that may be imposed,” said the letter, seen by this masthead.

In the letter to the ABC’s lawyers at Seyfarth Shaw, Bornstein and his team said if the offer were rejected, they estimated the broadcaster would spend an additional sum in the hundreds of thousands in legal costs, on top of the significant sum it had spent to date.

Lattouf’s team is holding the line on its accusation the ABC breached its disciplinary policies in its enterprise agreement by sacking her for reposting a Human Rights Watch post in December while presenting the Mornings show on ABC Radio Sydney for five days.

Read the rest here . . .

Culture, Feminism, Islam, Law, Media, Political correctness, Religion

Antoinette Lattouf: A portrait

The news.com.au report below reveals that if anyone is impressed with Antoinette’s beauty, cleverness, and ability it’s her. These insufferable young women whose sense of entitlement knows no bounds…

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‘Nobody can fire me’: ABC host Antoinette Lattouf before exit

A sacked ABC journo made an extraordinary claim just weeks before she was let go for her controversial posts about Israel and Gaza.

Chloe Whelan, news.com.au, 22 January 2024

Axed journalist Antoinette Lattouf bragged she “could not be fired” over her views on Israel and Gaza just days before signing an ill-fated agreement with the ABC.

Ms Lattouf was dismissed in late December, three days into a five-day hosting gig on the ABC’s Radio Sydney morning show.

She says she was axed due to her political views on the Israel and Gaza war, as well as her Lebanese heritage, while the ABC claims it was because Ms Lattouf was warned not to share controversial social media posts while working for the national broadcaster but continued to do so.

Ms Lattouf said, as an independent journo, “nobody can fire me”. Picture: Instagram.

Ms Lattouf said, as an independent journo, “nobody can fire me”. Picture: Instagram.

She claims to have been fired by the ABC in December. Picture: Instagram.

She claims to have been fired by the ABC in December. Picture: Instagram.

Now, it’s been revealed Ms Lattouf believed she couldn’t be fired in her capacity as a freelance journalist and didn’t look kindly upon publications that didn’t want to work with her due to her pro-Palestine beliefs.

On November 24, just three days before signing on to work for the ABC, Ms Lattouf shared a three-minute video to social media, praising journalists who had signed an open letter calling for newsrooms to treat unverified information from Israel’s government or terror group Hamas with the same “professional scepticism”.

She threw her weight behind the letter and declared: “As an independent and freelance journalist, nobody can fire me”.

Ms Lattouf then laughed and said: “I will certainly be using my voice and sharing my concerns.

“I have thought about future job prospects, so if somebody doesn’t want to work with me because I care about dozens of journalists who have been slaughtered by doing their work, because I care about the thousands and thousands of children who have been killed and civilians harmed … then honestly f**k them.”

Ms Lattouf hosted ABC radio in the week before Christmas. Picture: Instagram.

Ms Lattouf hosted ABC radio in the week before Christmas. Picture: Instagram.

The ABC says Ms Lattouf was let go due to her social media activity, which included — before she was employed by the national broadcaster — repeatedly questioning whether videos of pro-Palestinian protesters chanting “gas the Jews” at Sydney’s Opera House were verified.

On December 20, she shared a post from Human Rights Watch that read: “The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war in Gaza.”

It was the latter post, shared on Ms Lattouf’s third day working for the ABC, that saw her employment terminated.

Read the rest here . . .

Australia, Culture, Feminism, Islam, Media, Radicalism, Religion

Crucial connections – Lattouf, Muslim demonstrators, the far left, and Clementine Ford?

Hundreds rally in support of Palestine and sacked ABC journalist Antoinette Lattouf

Former ABC presenter Antoinette Lattouf has claimed she was the target of an “orchestrated attack” as hundreds rally in support.

Eli Green, news.com.au, 21 January 2024

Melburnians have gathered in their hundreds for a pro-Palestine rally also in support of a former ABC journalist who was let go over social media posts on the conflict.

Melburnians have gathered in their hundreds for a pro-Palestine rally also in support of a former ABC journalist who was let go over social media posts on the conflict.

A former ABC presenter sacked over a social media post about the war in Gaza has claimed she was “thrown under the bus” by the public broadcaster.

Antoinette Lattouf claims she was targeted by an “orchestrated attack” after she was dismissed in December just three days into a week-long hosting gig on Radio Sydney’s morning show.

She was let go after sharing a social media post about the conflict in Gaza, with ABC management telling her she was not allowed to post about controversial issues while in the presenter position.

The rally was also in support of ABC fill-in presenter Antoinette Lattouf who was let go from the broadcaster over social media posts. Picture: Instagram

The rally was also in support of ABC fill-in presenter Antoinette Lattouf who was let go from the broadcaster over social media posts. Picture: Instagram

Ms Lattouf said she was surprised that her sacking had triggered protests.

“I was floored, not only [by] how I was fired but how quickly things escalated because one minute I was taking talkback callers … the next, I’m thrown under the bus in a very public way,” she said in a BBC interview.

Reports this week have revealed that a group called Lawyers for Israel campaigned for Ms Lattouf to be ousted from the position, urging members to flood the ABC’s complaints from taking issue with the presenter.

Ms Lattouf said she had “no beef” with those wanting to lobby but took issue with the access the group appears to have gained.

“What I have real concerns with is when a lobby group seems to have a direct channel, [and] access to, very senior people, in this case, the chair of the board at the ABC, and can influence an outcome so rapidly,” she said.

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Culture, Islam, Law, Media, The Left

Antoinette Lattouf – another self-absorbed Gen Zed prima donna

Antoinette Lattouf, described as an ‘author and broadcaster’, was sacked by the ABC for unacceptable social media posts. The Guardian tells the story thus far HERE.

Now, Antoinette wasn’t happy with the decision. A blast of accusations followed which not unexpectedly accused the ABC of racism, in particular, anti-Arab racism.

Antoinette was ready with her rhetoric of white-anti-people-of-colour narrative because she had already favoured the public with her views in her book How to Lose Friends and Influence White People ‘which examines systematic racism in the media.’

Antoinette then issued an unlawful termination claim against the ABC. But she wasn’t finished yet. There was the option of legal action. News.com.au reported yesterday that Broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf expands ABC complaint to include claim the national broadcaster is ‘racist’. The report by Samantha Maiden retells the story and adds the legal action she has taken.

Lo and behold!

Antoinette has got Josh Bornstein of law firm Maurice Blackburn taking up the cudgel for her. The ABC should take notice because Josh has form in this sort of thing.

I’m thinking of one particular case in which Josh was triumphant for a person who was – and probably still is – as anti-Australian and anti-white as someone just … I won’t finish that because Josh might come after me. I can’t afford a shakedown. Let me leave it at this: his triumph represents a legal farce that should dismay all Australians.

The following is what Josh said about Antoinette’s case as reported by Maiden:

“The claim has now been amended to reflect that Antoinette Lattouf alleges that she was sacked by the ABC because she expressed a political opinion and also because of her race. Since October 7 and the ensuing conflict in the Middle East, it has become notorious in the media industry that Arab and Muslim journalists are being intimidated, censored and sacked,” Mr Bornstein said.

“In this case we will show that the ABC has not sacked white journalists for expressing political opinion, even where those journalists worked in news and current affairs. Antoinette’s role at the ABC was not a news or current affairs role. She shared four posts during her employment and was told that sharing the Human Rights Watch post was somehow a breach of the ABC’s social media policy.

“Then she was suddenly and humiliatingly sacked.

“We are seeking a detailed, public apology and compensation for harm to reputation and for distress and humiliation. In addition, Antoinette will seek an order that the ABC offer her a commensurate role back on air, as she is passionate about the importance of a representative public broadcaster. Finally, we are also seeking the imposition of penalties on the ABC to deter it from repeating this conduct.”

If Josh prevails in this case – the case of a self-absorbed Gen Zed prima donna – then the ordinary person should wonder how much protection he has against Australia’s legal system.

A triumph might be self-satisfying for Josh, but it might also be a Pyrrhic victory for Antoinette. Have you considered that, Josh? How employable would Antoinette be?

Catholic Church, Christianity, Economics, Islam, Radicalism, Religion

Islam, realism and the Church

By William Kilpatrick, The Catholic Thing, 7 January 2020

It’s bad enough that the leftist media peddle the nonsense that Islam is a religion of peace and the conflict between the the Western and Islamic worlds is due to the warmongering of the bigoted West. In this, more than most leftist agendas, the left’s mass manipulation has been outstandingly successful. That, as I say, is bad enough. But to hear the hierarchy of the Catholic Church running such pernicious revisionism is almost too much to bear. William Kilpatrick states a few incontestable truths for those still in possession of their reason. Worse, perhaps, is that this culpable revisionism signals the Marxist takeover of the Church and the Pope’s hatred of the West.

In comments last year, Marcello Pera, a prominent Italian intellectual and non-believer, criticized Pope Francis for “openly going against tradition, doctrine, and introducing inexplicable innovations, behaviors and gestures.”

A philosopher of science, former president of the Italian Senate, and close friend of Pope Benedict XVI, Pera asserted that Francis had turned Catholicism into “a Church so outgoing that it can no longer be found anywhere.”

In an earlier 2017 interview with Il Mattino, Pera was even more outspoken.  In answer to a question about “indiscriminate” welcoming of migrants to Europe, he replied: “Frankly, I do not get this pope, whatever he says is beyond any rational understanding.  It’s evident to all that an indiscriminate welcoming is not possible:  there is a critical point that can’t be reached.”

Read on…

Catholic Church, Christianity, Culture, Islam, Religion

The Crusades in Context

By Paul Stenhouse MSC PhD,

Annals Australasia 2007, Issue No.6

CURRENT wisdom would have it that ‘five centuries of peaceful co-existence’ between Muslims and Christians were brought to an end by ‘political events and an imperial-papal power play,’ that was to lead to a ‘centuries-long series of so-called “holy-wars” that pitted Christendom against Islam, and left an enduring legacy of misunderstanding and mistrust.’[1]

A school textbook, Humanities Alive 2, for Year 8 students in the Australian State of Victoria, carries the anti-Christian/anti-Western argument further:

Those who destroyed the World Trade Centre are regarded as terrorists… Might it be fair to say that the Crusaders who attacked the Muslim inhabitants of Jerusalem were also terrorists?[2]

Muhammad died in Medina on June 8, 632 AD.

The first of the eight Crusades to free the Holy Places in Palestine from Muslim control, and offer safe passage to the Holy Land for Christian pilgrims, was called only in 1095. At the risk of sounding pedantic, the period in question is not ‘five centuries’, but four hundred and sixty-three years; and those years, we contend, were not characterized by ‘peaceful co­existence’.[3]

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Islam, Media, Radicalism, Religion

Establishing an Islamic nation and government within Australia

‘Islamic Fears’

Everywhere around the Western world where Muslims have settled you find deliberate cultural segregation over which the Islamic leaders maintain de facto Sharia law. The female dress of the Niqab and Burka, both repugnant to the Western mind, is the most defying symbol of the segregation.

The evidence of Islamic politico-cultural separation is most blatant in France, Sweden, Germany, Britain and Holland. There are no-go districts in France and Germany that are dangerous for the non-Muslim to enter.

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Anti-white racism, Australia, Islam, Politics, The Left

Australia – becoming a land of colonies?

The tennis world was eager to see how young Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas  would fare against aging Spanish champion Rafael Nadal. There seemed to be a wish that Tsitsipas would prevail over the Spanish bull. Wishful thinking, indeed. Nadal gored the young Greek. But it was not the anticipated clash that drew my attention in the first place.

Once again, television news reports showed crowds of Greek supporters draped in Greek colours loudly proclaiming in Australian accents their support for Tsitsipas . If you speak with an Australian accent, you have grown up in Australia. The Greek case of Australians identifying with another nation and culture is not the only one.

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Christianity, Islam, Politics, Religion

The Crusades in Context

by Paul Stenhouse MSC PhD

Fr Stenhouse, an expert on the Middle East and editor of Annals Australasia, debunks the constantly repeated claim that Christians and Muslims lived in peace until the Crusades.

CURRENT wisdom would have it that ‘five centuries of peaceful co-existence’ between Muslims and Christians were brought to an end by ‘political events and an imperial-papal power play,’ that was to lead to a ‘centuries-long series of so-called “holy-wars” that pitted Christendom against Islam, and left an enduring legacy of misunderstanding and mistrust.’[1] A school textbook, Humanities Alive 2, for Year 8 students in the Australian State of Victoria, carries the anti-Christian/anti-Western argument further:

Those who destroyed the World Trade Centre are regarded as terrorists… Might it be fair to say that the Crusaders who attacked the Muslim inhabitants of Jerusalem were also terrorists. [2]

Muhammad died in Medina on June 8, 632 AD. The first of the eight Crusades to free the Holy Places in Palestine from Muslim control and offer safe passage to the Holy Land for Christian pilgrims, was called only in 1095. At the risk of sounding pedantic, the period in question is not ‘five centuries’, but four hundred and sixty-three years; and those years, we contend, were not characterized by ‘peaceful coexistence’.[3]

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Culture, Islam, Politics

THE SYRIAN REFUGEES: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

The March 2018 column of One Nation’s Mark Latham about the settlement of refugees continues to be current.

Refugee policy has become the ultimate form of virtue signaling. Left-wing elites think they can display their compassion and moral superiority by advocating for open borders. They gather at candle-lit vigils, urging our governments to take in an unlimited number of asylum seekers. Under the Rudd and Gillard Governments, this ended in the tragedy of 2,000 drowned at sea – the greatest humanitarian disaster in Australian history.

I remember a shouting match with my Labor colleague Anthony Albanese after the Tampa incident in 2001. He accused me of representing a racist electorate in Western Sydney that wanted to close our borders to people in need. I told him it had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the rule of law: how suburban Labor voters simply wanted an orderly, merit-based migration system, with no queue jumping.

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