The ABC has copped a $150,000 fine for unlawfully sacking a fill-in presenter for an Instagram post about Gaza after a campaign from pro-Israel lobbyists. The penalty was levied on Wednesday against the public broadcaster for breaching workplace law when it sacked journalist Antoinette Lattouf from her casual role on ABC Radio Sydney’s Mornings program in 2023. The amount is less than half of the $350,000 figure Lattouf called for at a Federal Court hearing earlier in September. The ABC instead sought between $37,560 and $56,340, reasoning the sacking was borne of a “single inadvertent mistake”. Justice Darryl Rangiah in June found the ABC breached employment law by dismissing the journalist for reasons that included her political opinions.