The ABC is set to launch disciplinary proceedings against Radio National Breakfast host Patricia Karvalas for breaching the national broadcaster’s editorial charter that could see her dismissed from her position.

“Unfortunately we have been forced to act because we now have such a long list of incidents in which Ms Karvalas appears to deliberately breach a specific part of the ABC’s editorial code of practice,” an ABC insider said. (main picture)

“In particular she has regularly breached a section of the code of practice that requires that material facts presented in ABC news and current affairs programs are accurate.”

The source said Mr Karvalas had breached that section almost daily, and sometimes many times a day during interviews on her Breakfast program by prefacing her interruption of an interviewee’s answer with remarks such as: “I don’t mean to interrupt you, but…”

“Clearly she does mean to interrupt otherwise she wouldn’t be interrupting, so her comments are certainly not accurate,” the source said.

“We think it’s a very clear case of breaching the standards so she could be latouffed pretty soon after the disciplinary hearing starts,” the source said.

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The Palestinian Authority is seeking more details about the postwar plan for Gaza outlined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

An spokesperson for the Authority said the plan, Mr Netanyahu’s blueprint for how Gaza would be administered once the current Israeli/Hamas war ends, raised a number of questions.

“The biggest question is the plan’s apparent shift of the Gaza shoreline eastward to its current fortified border with Israel and the creation of what Mr Netanyahu has labelled ‘Gaza Bay’,” the spokesperson said. (below)

“We are asking for more information to be provided urgently so we can make a full assessment of his plan.”

Meanwhile, White House spokesperson John Kirby (below) said the Biden administration fully backed Mr Netanyahu’s postwar plan.

“We think it’s the only plan that makes sense and it is the only plan that the USA will support when the current conflict ends,” Mr Kirby said.

“In fact, we can’t wait to see a copy of it when Mr Netanyahu decides to send us one.”

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has called on the new CEO of Woolworths to ensure adequate supplies of Australia Day ephemera are stocked in the retail group’s supermarkets next January to help consumers mark Australia Day.

“I’m glad to see the back of  former CEO Brad Banducci who has clearly been driven from the job by my call for a consumer boycott of Woolworths (below) plus the backlash I sparked against his woke un-Australian decision against selling Aussie-themed paraphernalia in the lead-up 26 January this year,” Mr Dutton said.

“I only hope that as the new CEO, Amanda Bardwell returns to running Woolworths along free enterprise lines and doesn’t bow down to outside pressures by hardcore political ideologues,” Mr Dutton said.  

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