Unfair dismissal claim is examining how and why reporter was taken off air after she posted about Israel-Gaza war on social media

• Five things we’ve learned this week from Antoinette Lattouf’s alleged unfair dismissal case against the ABC

Neil, for the ABC, says after the decision to keep Lattouf on air had been made on Monday afternoon, Anderson discovered some of her earlier social media activity that troubled him. Anderson believed it may conflict with the ABC’s impartiality requirements and the perception of impartiality, the court heard.

About 9pm that night Anderson sent a text to Chris Oliver-Taylor saying:

We have an Antoinette issue, the socials are full of anti semitic hatred.

Not sure we can have someone on the air that suggests that Hamas should return to their ethnic cleansing in Gaza and move on to the West Bank.

I think this is hugely problematic.

I think we have a problem.

Thank you, Chris. Does she need to come off air? If so, it can be done, but may disruptive if done tomorrow.

In our submission, this is the end of any influence that the fact or content of complaints that the ABC received about Ms Lattouf had on any of the salient events.

The complaints had been received. They had been looked at. It had been appreciated that the complaints focused not on anything that Ms Lattouf had done or said on air.