Dismissal claim abandoned
Mahmood Fazal has dropped his unfair dismissal case against the ABC after being fired for breaking editorial standards.
Mahmood Fazal was once a bikie who became an investigative journalist. Fazal has dropped his unfair dismissal case against the ABC.
The ABC fired him in May. An internal investigation looked at his podcast appearance with a former underworld figure.
The investigation found he used the same masked anonymous source under different aliases. He used this source across multiple stories for Four Corners and Background Briefing.
The ABC said he broke its policies on anonymous sources. The ABC removed his stories from its archives.
Fazal defended his work. He said he wanted to move on with his life.
But he felt the ABC had attacked him and his sources. His case was due in the Fair Work Commission.
It is no longer listed.
- ABC
- Employer
- May 2025
- Fired
- Four Corners and Background Briefing
- Programs
Why it mattersThe case ends months of legal uncertainty. The breach of editorial standards shows what is at stake when journalists use anonymous sources.
AustraliaAustralian audiences lost access to Fazal's investigations, and the case shows how seriously the ABC polices its editorial rules.
Corroborated bysmh.com.au
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