Video / 9 NewsMedia staff for the Australian Border Force ignored the privacy of 501 deportees by providing their names to a Channel 9 journalist, leading to the "taking the trash out" broadcast that soured transtasman relations. The broadcast also used the Australian Border Force video footage without identifying it as the source with Fabris naming the deportees as they were led to waiting aircraft. One of the New Zealand citizens captured in video shot by Australian Border Force and supplied to Channel 9. Photo / SuppliedThe letter accompanying the FOI correspondence, signed by the ABF media manager Hamish Walker, said the names were withheld for privacy reasons. After the Channel 9 broadcast, ABF Commissioner Michael Outram was grilled at an Australian parliamentary committee about the presence of Fabris on the runway.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 08, 2021 17:03 UTC