Emma Alberici’s daughter Allegra McCauley to fight property damage charge and restraining order

The 18-year-old daughter of TV presenter Emma Alberici allegedly broke down a door at her mother’s home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs before police took out a restraining order against the teenager.

Allegra McCauley is being prevented from coming within 50 yards of her mother’s home or workplace until an apprehended violence warrant request can be heard in late December.

McCauley, one of the former ABC journalist’s three children with her ex-husband Jason McCauley, appeared in Waverley Local Court on Thursday.

She is charged with intentionally damaging or destroying ’round the door’ at her mother’s Coogee home around noon on December 29 last year.

Allegra McCauley is being prevented from coming within 50 yards of the home or workplace of her mother, Emma Alberici, until an apprehended violence warrant request is heard in late December. Alberici is pictured hosting ABC’s Lateline show

McCauley’s lawyer said his client would defend the charge and oppose the AVO requested by police to protect Alberici, 52.

Alberici was a foreign correspondent and chief economics correspondent for ABC, where he also hosted Lateline for five years.

The national broadcaster fired her in 2020.

The intensely private broadcaster married 60 Minutes soundman 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, one of the former ABC journalist’s three children with her ex-husband Jason McCauley, appeared in Waverley Local Court on Thursday morning (above)

The teen will not contact her mother except through a lawyer and will return to court for a hearing scheduled for two hours on December 21.

Alberici, once a reporter for Nine Network’s A Current Affair, became ABC’s top economics correspondent after Lateline was fired in October 2017.

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 extremely private Alberici married 60 Minutes soundman McCauley in 2003 and the couple separated in 2016. They have two daughters and a son. The former couple in the photo.

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.

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.

‘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.

“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.