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The Guardian
18-07-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Court throws out pro-Israel group's bid to refer journalists and editors for contempt over Antoinette Lattouf case
An application by a pro-Israel group to refer editors, reporters and lawyers from Nine Entertainment for contempt proceedings has been dismissed by the federal court. The editor of the Age, Patrick Elligett, and the Sydney Morning Herald, Bevan Shields, and two Age reporters, Michael Bachelard and Calum Jaspan, were among the eight individuals named in the application that alleged the newspapers had breached a suppression order made by the judge in the Antoinette Lattouf unlawful termination case. Justice Darryl Rangiah said on Friday the interlocutory application filed on 26 February seeking an order to make an application for punishment of the newspapers be dismissed. He ordered the pro-Israel group pay half of the legal costs of the newspapers. Rangiah granted a suppression order during the unlawful termination case in February to protect the identities and contact details of pro-Israel individuals who had contacted the ABC with complaints about Lattouf's employment. Lattouf was taken off air three days into a five-day casual contract in December 2023 after she posted on social media about the Israel-Gaza war. Last month, the federal court found the ABC breached the Fair Work Act when it terminated Lattouf for reasons including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. Sue Chrysanthou SC, acting for the pro-Israel group, told the court during the hearing the newspapers had ignored her legal letters and she sought a referral under federal court rule 42.16 'to consider whether proceedings should be instituted for the punishment of contempt'. Nine's lawyer Tom Blackburn SC told the hearing that the primary article in dispute was not in breach of the suppression order because it was published months before Lattouf took legal action, and therefore had no connection to the case. More details soon …
The Age
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
A late-career marvel and an enriching memoir: The Age Book of the Year winners
The winners of this year's Age Book of the Year Awards have been praised for writing books that stay with readers long after their final pages. The awards were presented by The Age editor Patrick Elligett at the opening night of the Melbourne Writers Festival on Thursday night, and the winners each received $10,000, thanks to the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. Rodney Hall's Vortex won the awards' fiction category. Queensland-based Hall, who is 89, was unable to accept the award in person, but said in a pre-recorded video that the experimental Vortex, 'was a risk from the beginning'. Hall, who has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, said his 14th novel, which is set in Brisbane in 1954 and depicts an alternative history of the 20th century, took shape in 2021 when he found 18 pages of a novel he had abandoned in 1971. 'At long last I could see what I had been aiming for when I was a young man. Fifteen of the eighteen pages went straight into the project.' The fiction judges, author and critic Bram Presser, and The Age and Sydney Morning Herald 's Canberra Bureau Chief Michelle Griffin, described Vortex as a late-career marvel 'that sticks with you ... often surprisingly funny and sad all at once.' 'At a time when many will feel caught up in the vortex of global events, this novel feels both particular to its time and place and yet universal.' The novel has been widely acclaimed as Hall's best, but the author says he 'doesn't distract himself' with comparisons of his novels. 'I just try to keep each book fresh for the reader.'
Sydney Morning Herald
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A late-career marvel and an enriching memoir: The Age Book of the Year winners
The winners of this year's Age Book of the Year Awards have been praised for writing books that stay with readers long after their final pages. The awards were presented by The Age editor Patrick Elligett at the opening night of the Melbourne Writers Festival on Thursday night, and the winners each received $10,000, thanks to the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund. Rodney Hall's Vortex won the awards' fiction category. Queensland-based Hall, who is 89, was unable to accept the award in person, but said in a pre-recorded video that the experimental Vortex, 'was a risk from the beginning'. Hall, who has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, said his 14th novel, which is set in Brisbane in 1954 and depicts an alternative history of the 20th century, took shape in 2021 when he found 18 pages of a novel he had abandoned in 1971. 'At long last I could see what I had been aiming for when I was a young man. Fifteen of the eighteen pages went straight into the project.' The fiction judges, author and critic Bram Presser, and The Age and Sydney Morning Herald 's Canberra Bureau Chief Michelle Griffin, described Vortex as a late-career marvel 'that sticks with you ... often surprisingly funny and sad all at once.' 'At a time when many will feel caught up in the vortex of global events, this novel feels both particular to its time and place and yet universal.' The novel has been widely acclaimed as Hall's best, but the author says he 'doesn't distract himself' with comparisons of his novels. 'I just try to keep each book fresh for the reader.'
