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Former ABC journalist Antoinette Lattouf arrives at the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on February 03, 2025. Photo: Flavio Brancaleone / The Sydney Morning Herald

Antoinette Lattouf v ABC LIVE updates: Unfair dismissal case resumes in Federal Court; former presenter rejects claim she was told not to post on social media

Antoinette Lattouf’s unfair dismissal case against the ABC is back in court for a second day.

  • Calum Jaspan

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Cricket commentator Peter Lalor.

‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist

Cricket reporter Peter Lalor has received support from the Australian opener Usman Khawaja after the journalist was told he could not cover cricket for SEN any more due to his social media support of Palestinians.

  • Daniel Brettig and Tom Decent
Antisemitic graffiti has appeared on houses and cars in Sydney and Melbourne.

Labor has failed the Jewish community when leadership was needed most

There is clearly a connection between today’s antisemitism and the war in Gaza because it is a hatred and demonisation of Israel that glues together today’s antisemites.

  • Jeremy Leibler
Antoinette Lattouf arrives at court on Monday.

‘We owe her nothing’: Buttrose pushed for Lattouf removal, court hears

Antoinette Lattouf’s case is the culmination of a near-14-month process challenging her 2023 dismissal from the ABC’s Sydney morning show.

  • Calum Jaspan
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘I burst into tears’: Emotions high as World Vision worker freed in Gaza ceasefire exchange

Hamas freed three male hostages as Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange.

  • Roy Ward, Mohammad Jahjouh and Imad Isseid
Kfir Bibas, at nine months, was the youngest hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Fears for Israel’s youngest hostage as Hamas releases father

The Bibas family became a potent symbol of Israel’s hostage crisis after video showed Palestinian militants leading away a distraught mother clutching her two small red-haired sons.

  • Erika Solomon
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Arbel Yehoud who had been held hostage since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters to be handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Chaotic scenes as Hamas releases eight more hostages following Gaza truce

The latest release was delayed when crowds surrounded the hostages as they made their way to waiting Red Cross vehicles.

Shane Patton

‘Huge rise in antisemitism’: Top cop says thousands of officers deployed to hotspots in Melbourne suburbs

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton says the incidents being reported to police are “abhorrent and disgusting”.

  • Melissa Cunningham
The former home of prominent Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in a firebombing.

Eleven arrests, over a dozen attacks: Sydney’s wave of antisemitic horror

The discovery of a caravan laden with explosives follows an escalating series of attacks, with businesses, homes and synagogues defaced with graffiti and set alight.

  • Amber Schultz
David Coleman and Donald Trump.

‘That’s not our policy’: Coalition splits with Trump on Gaza ‘clean-out’

New opposition foreign affairs spokesman David Coleman says a Coalition government would argue for a two-state solution for the Palestinian and Israeli people, not the plan put forward by Donald Trump.

  • David Crowe

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