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Radio nightmare: Jackie O launches her own lawsuit · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Jackie O Henderson, the radio star
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  Speaker 1: who's embroiled in a dispute with her former on air
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  Speaker 1: partner Carl Sandalans, is now suing the network who promised
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  Speaker 1: to pay them two hundred million dollars over ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Henderson triggered the breakup of Australian media's highest paid partnership
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  Speaker 1: in February after an on air fight with Sandalands over
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  Speaker 1: what he said was her unreasonable obsession with astrology. You're
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  Speaker 1: off with the fairies where no, no, no, tell me
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  Speaker 1: where I've been off with the fairies during the show.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to prove it. I totally am offended
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  Speaker 1: by you saying something bad if you are, because that's
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  Speaker 1: the reality of what we're dealing with here. That is
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  Speaker 1: so unfair. I have been in here doing this segment
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  Speaker 1: to Henderson disappeared from the airwaves for a week, and
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  Speaker 1: then their employer ARN announced it was terminating both their
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  Speaker 1: contracts because Henderson had said she could no longer work
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  Speaker 1: with Sandalance. That prompted Sandalance to sue in the Federal
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  Speaker 1: court for the eighty five million dollar balance of his contract,
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  Speaker 1: accusing AARN of unfairly preventing him from speaking to Henderson
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  Speaker 1: and having encouraged his bombastic on air persona and clashes
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  Speaker 1: just like the one Henderson found so upsetting. The Australian
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  Speaker 1: revealed earlier this week ARN was planning to call Henderson
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  Speaker 1: as its star witness, but now she's taking legal action
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  Speaker 1: of her own in the Fair Work Commission. She's seeking
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  Speaker 1: eighty two million dollars for the balance of her own contract,
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  Speaker 1: which she says was wrongfully terminated. It's a diabolical mess
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  Speaker 1: for ARN, whose own market capitalization is dwarfed by the
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  Speaker 1: total its former star employees are seeking. That's before the
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  Speaker 1: whopping legal costs of two high profile cases come into play.
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  Speaker 1: Henderson is also accusing AARN of misleading the stock market
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  Speaker 1: in an update where it said she had made multiple
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  Speaker 1: allegations about her psychosocial health and safety from working with
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  Speaker 1: Sandalands over an extended period of time. When Henderson initially
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  Speaker 1: said she couldn't work with Sandalands, AARN seized on the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to dump a program it wanted to get rid of.
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  Speaker 1: The Kyle and Jackie O show had failed to penetrate
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne and was a massive drain on the publicly listed broadcasters' finances.
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  Speaker 1: The network said at the time Henderson had been offered
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  Speaker 1: another show on KISSFM, but it's understood that would have
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  Speaker 1: been for a salary nowhere near her original deal. Aarn
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  Speaker 1: says it disputes Henderson's claim. Donald Trump reportedly told AIDS
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  Speaker 1: by Iran and through which about twenty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: world's oil supplies pass every day. Trump previously said Operation
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  Speaker 1: Epic Fury, which began on February twenty eight, would be
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  Speaker 1: done and dusted in four to six weeks, but reopening
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  Speaker 1: the strait has proved difficult, and an assessment by the
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  Speaker 1: President and his aides reportedly determined that Timeline could blow
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  Speaker 1: Washington would put diplomatic pressure on Tehran to resume global trade.
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  Speaker 1: are live now at the Australian dot com dot au
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