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Lattouf unlawful termination case has cost ABC at least $2.5m, Hugh Marks tells estimates

Media | The Guardian · Amanda Meade · last updated

Public broadcaster failed to follow its own processes, boss says, and it was ‘not a good reflection on the organisation’

The Antoinette Lattouf unlawful dismissal case had “many failings” and has cost the ABC more than $2.5m in external costs alone, ABC managing director Hugh Marks has told Senate estimates.

In his first appearance before parliament in the role, Marks said the public broadcaster failed to follow its own processes, resulting in the ABC breaching the law and accruing substantial external and in-house legal costs.

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