The ABC has been ordered to pay a penalty of $150,000 to Antoinette Lattouf for unlawfully terminating her Sydney radio contract after a judge found it “let down the Australian public badly” by capitulating to pro-Israel campaigners. The sum is in addition to $70,000 in compensation that Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah ordered the national broadcaster to pay Lattouf after delivering his principal decision on June 25. Antoinette Lattouf and one of her barristers, Philip Boncardo, outside the Federal Court in Sydney earlier this month. Credit: Sam MooyRangiah said in his penalty decision, delivered in Brisbane on Wednesday, that the ABC had chosen to “surrender to the lobbyists’ political campaign by sacrificing” Lattouf. He ordered the ABC to make the payment to Lattouf within 28 days.