Leaked staff-wide email at Nova reveals awkward corporate rift: INSIDE MAIL
In this world, nothing can be considered certain, except death and taxes… and the eternal outrage over the date of Australia Day.
No one loves this old chestnut more than the unimaginative editors at News Corp’s Holt St headquarters.
It is not surprising that the topic was central to the Lachlan Murdoch-controlled media giant’s fearlessly patriotic and predictably worded Daily Telegraph again this week.
We all know the drill: woke anti-Australia Day fighters have no respect for the nation blah blah blah blah, see last year’s coverage for the full vitriol.
Constructive things.
Of course, not everyone in Murdoch’s empire is so fanatical about this issue.
Australia Day was the focus of Lachlan Murdoch’s Daily Telegraph this week
Popular Nova presenters Lauren Phillips and Jase Hawkins (left) and Chrissie Swan (right) will be given the option to work through Australia Day following an edict from senior management
Inside Mail can reveal that employees at its private radio network Nova Entertainment were informed in a staff email this week that they do not have to celebrate Australia Day on January 26 if they feel too uncomfortable about it.
Instead, employees of the network work, with headline stars like Chrissie Swan, Ricki Lee Coulter, Lauren Phillips and that’s wonderful Sally Fletcher from Summer Bay, were told they were free to work over Australia Day and instead celebrate the national holiday with a day off on another date of their choice.
Hmm… that sounds eerily like all that woke, namby-pamby hippie nonsense that the Tele gets so upset about. But definitely not?
But Nova is not the first media outlet to offer employees the option to take another holiday.
Two years ago, Channel 10 bosses sent all editorial and programming staff an email that mentioned only January 26 and told employees they could work if they wanted.
ABC did the same, but managing director David Anderson later revealed that only three of its thousands of staff had taken up the offer.
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