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Guthrie accuses Milne of inappropiate conduct
Former ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has claimed former ABC chair Justin Milne touched her inappropriately at a Sydney restaurant in 2017.
Speaking to the ABC’s Four Corners, Guthrie said Milne rubbed her back at a board dinner last November, described the interaction as “icky … unprofessional and inappropriate”.
Guthrie met with another member of the board to discuss the incident, but declined to make a formal complaint. Milne denied Guthrie’s claim, saying he “never, ever acted inappropriately with Michelle, or indeed with any other woman in the workforce, or any other woman at all”.
Milne and Guthrie appeared on the program as part of a report into the ABC’s leadership crisis in September, which resulted in both leaving the organisation. Guthrie is suing Milne and the ABC.