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Jones, 2GB ordered to pay Trad $10k

| December 22, 2009

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/22/2778046.htm

The radio broadcaster Alan Jones and his employer 2GB have been ordered to pay $10,000 in damages and apologise to the Muslim leader Keysar Trad. …

The tribunal said the broadcasts included Mr Jones’ view that Australia is not a multi-racial but a mono-cultural society, and that this mono-culture was under threat from the “enemies within.”

Mr Jones spoke about “car hoons” – which he identified as “Lebanese Muslim youths” – and their disrespect for police.

The tribunal says Mr Jones also interpreted an allegedly inflammatory speech by