LUVVIES RISE UP AGAINST NON-ANGLO INTERLOPER
So the ABC has fired an Asian woman because she didn’t get along with an old white guy.
So the ABC has fired an Asian woman because she didn’t get along with an old white guy.
Interesting:
ABC boss Michelle Guthrie said she was “devastated” to be axed only halfway through her five-year term as managing director and is considering her legal options after falling out with the ABC board.
Ms Guthrie said she was terminated from her $891,000 a year job despite “no claim of wrongdoing on my part”.
ABC Chairman Justin Milne revealed the taxpayer-funded broadcaster was seeking “fresh leadership” a day after The Australian reported his relationship with 53-year-old Ms Guthrie had soured …
“While my contract permits the Board to terminate my appointment without cause and with immediate effect, I believe there is no justification for the Board to trigger that termination clause,” she said.
“I am considering my legal options”.
Mr Milne said Ms Guthrie was sacked because of the need for a better relationship with the government — but insisted no one from the government pressured the board to sack her.
Excellent decision https://t.co/Xzo14iRDcM
— Sally Neighbour (@neighbour_s) September 24, 2018
“The board felt in the end that her leadership style was not the style that we needed going forward. We needed a different leadership style,” Mr Milne said.
How very Turnbullian.
UPDATE. The ABC’s Jon Faine – another white guy – is delighted by Guthrie's humiliation:
"Staff morale has never been so low," Faine said. "[She was] given the benefit of the doubt because she was a woman. She was smart and we were excited. But she was only interested in a few parts of the organisation.
"She wouldn't advocate for us, which is an astonishing fail. She's been all but invisible. Every time you tried to get something from her, it was all jargon."
And now she’s been turfed at the behest of a bloke who uses the phrase “going forward”.
UPDATE II. Everything he touches:
Justin Milne was appointed Chairman in 2017 with one of his perceived strengths being that he was close to the then Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. Not only did that relationship fail to deliver visible benefits, but the calling card has of course now expired.