Pressure to remove Antoinette Lattouf came from ‘higher up’ and before she made Instagram post, court hears ABC manager who had approached Lattouf for temporary hosting role told the court she had ‘tried to stop them’ from firing journalist.
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”.
Even before Lattouf made the social media post that ABC managers say was the catalyst for her dismissal, Green said that “there was pressure from the Monday to get rid of Ms Lattouf”.
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.
But Elizabeth Green, Lattouf’s line manager and then ABC Radio Sydney’s content director, said there was pressure from Lattouf’s first day on air for her to be removed.
