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In a clip from Q&A in June 2021, ABC host Antoinette Lattouf - axed over her Twitter posts - insisted Rugby Australia was right to dump Israel Folau for breaching the governing bodys social media rules.

ABC global affairs editor John Lyons told a staff meeting the broadcaster “faced one of its darkest days” when this masthead published a series of leaked WhatsApp messages from a group of pro-Israel lawyers.

In a surprising turn of events, the ABC has reportedly backtracked on its comments and now denies sacking journalist Antoinette Lattouf.

A WhatsApp chat called J.E.W.I.S.H Australian creatives and academics coordinated a campaign to pressure the ABC into firing Antoinette Lattouf.

Labor is reluctant to directly shut down industrial action because it wants to avoid inflaming class tensions amid a growing cost-of-living crisis and mounting opposition to its agenda of austerity and war.

The changing jobs market means staff are no longer in a position of strength four years after the Covid pandemic sparked the couch-based work-life revolution.

Leading economists surveyed by The Australian Financial Review were asked to assess the performance of Treasurer Jim Chalmers and rate him out of 10.

The Maritime Union has embarked on a calibrated campaign that applies maximum pressure without giving the industrial umpire a reason to intervene, lawyers say.

 Hopes that the Australian government would help to break the deadlock in the wage negotiations for terminal operator DP World were dashed on Thursday...

Transport operators warn DP World will keep raising port fees, which are passed down the supply chain, to pay wage costs