Emma Alberici’s daughter Allegra McCauley, 18, banned from going within 50m of her ex-ABC star mum
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Emma Alberici’s 18-year-old daughter is barred from coming within 50 meters of her former ABC star and ordered not to speak to her while cops take out an AVO on the teen and charge her with destroying property.
- Emma Alberici is a former ABC anchor and chief economics correspondent.
- ABC fired her in 2020 amid tensions with management.
- Police removed AVO to protect Alberici from his daughter Allegra McCauley
- McCauley, 18, has also been charged with destroying or damaging property.
The 18-year-old daughter of TV presenter Emma Alberici is not allowed near her mother’s home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs as part of a restraining order taken by police.
Allegra McCauley, one of the former ABC journalist’s three children with her ex-husband Jason McCauley, is not to come within 50 yards of her mother’s Coogee address or anywhere she works, court documents revealed.
Police took out an arrest warrant on December 29 to protect Alberici, 52, who was fired by the national network in 2020.
The intensely private Alberici was a foreign correspondent and chief economics correspondent for ABC, where she also ran the current affairs program Lateline for five years.
The 18-year-old daughter of TV presenter Emma Alberici (above) is not allowed near her mother’s home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs as part of a restraining order taken by police.
Allegra McCauley, one of the former ABC journalist’s three children with ex-husband Jason McCauley (above), must not come within 50m of her mother’s Coogee address or workplace.
She married 60 Minutes sound technician McCauley in 2003, and the couple separated in 2016.
Under the terms of the AVO, your daughter must not assault, threaten, stalk, harass, intimidate, or recklessly destroy or damage any property belonging to Alberici.
McCauley has also been charged with destroying or damaging property worth less than $2,000 on the same day the interim AVO was issued.
The teenager is not to contact her mother except through a lawyer and is due to appear in Waverley Local Court on January 12.
Alberici, once a reporter for Nine Network’s A Current Affair, became ABC’s top economics correspondent after Lateline was fired in October 2017.
The extremely private Alberici married 60 Minutes soundman McCauley in 2003 and the couple separated in 2016. They have two daughters and a son (all pictured).
In that role, he wrote a story for the ABC website in February 2018 indicating that only one in five large Australian companies paid tax, as well as a critical analysis of the federal government’s proposed business tax cuts. the Coalition.
Then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attacked Alberici in parliament over the news which he described as “one of the most confusing and poorly researched articles I have seen on this subject”.
ABC removed the story and the analysis, but both were redacted and republished following negotiations between the broadcaster and a lawyer acting for Alberici.
The journalist’s supporters accused the ABC of giving in to pressure from Turnbull and unfairly attacking Alberici.
The ABC claimed it had identified errors or misleading statements in Alberici’s company’s tax cut story and found its analysis piece lacking impartiality.
She was laid off in 2020 and settled with ABC after filing a complaint with the Fair Labor Commission.
Alberici responded to news of that deal in a social media post referring to then-ABC news director Gaven Morris.
“It is true that ABC and I reached an agreement yesterday,” he wrote.
‘After 18 years of loyal service, including as one of the country’s first mother foreign correspondents (with three children under the age of three), I am no longer employed by them.
Under the terms of the AVO, Alberici’s daughter must not assault, threaten, stalk, harass, intimidate or recklessly destroy or damage any of his property.
“Despite the enormous toll his actions have taken on my mental health, Gaven Morris wanted to call it severance pay, no doubt so he could tell the world I got fired for incompetence or something.
“To be very clear: I have never coveted the camera. I will no longer be on television and I will not accept any role if it is offered to me. It’s too painful to be in the public eye. For the elimination of doubts, I have not received offers from anyone in the media.
Since then, Alberici has worked in strategy, government relations and communications for financial comparison website Compare the Market and as a headhunter for recruiting firm Derwent.
She is reportedly writing a memoir called Rewrite the Story and is an ambassador for the childhood cancer charity Camp Quality.