Australia’s public broadcaster, ABC , has been ordered to pay $145,000 to journalist Antoinette Lattouf after she was unfairly dismissed over a social media post related to the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Lattouf was fired in December 2023, just three days into a five-day casual contract with ABC , after reposting a Human Rights Watch video on Instagram about the Gaza conflict. She had added the comment, “HRW reporting starvation as a tool of war."

Federal Court Judge Darryl Rangiah ruled that ABC broke employment law by terminating Lattouf partly because of her political opinions opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

Speaking on Wednesday, Judge Rangiah said the broadcaster’s actions had serious consequences for Lattouf. He said that for many people, employment is not just ab

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