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BY Sarah Patterson May 28, 2026
What's New March 31, 2026
Jackie begins legal action against ARN, seeks $82 million compensation
Jackie Henderson has initiated legal action against ARN in the Federal Court.
ARN disputes the claim and intends to defend it.
Jackie claims in her court filing that the termination of her contract constituted an “adverse action” under Section 340 of the Fair Work Act. Her lawyers allege that the termination of her contract amounted to a repudiation of her agreement.
Lawyers for Jackie also claim that ARN’s stock exchange announcement on March 3 “included isleadning and deceptive statements” under Australian Consumer Law.
Jackie is claiming compensation of at least $82.25 million.
The story so far:
After a heated and tearful on air stoush between Kyle and Jackie on 19 February, Jackie was absent from the Kyle and Jackie O show the following week. During that time off air she met with content and human resources staff of ARN. A week later, on March 3, ARN issued a statement to the stock exchange saying that, after discussions with Jackie, her contract had been terminated.
ARN’s reasons for terminating Jackie’s contract were based on statements she made during the HR meeting, that she could not continue to work with Kyle Sandilands, according to the ASX release. ARN also suspended Kyle and gave him 14 days to show cause why his contract should not be terminated.
On 6 March, Jackie issued a statement contradicting ARN’s ASX release. It said:
“I am deeply saddened by the events of the past week and the possibility of the show ending. This has come as a shock to me, as it has to everyone else… The current media narrative does not reflect what actually occurred, and it has been truly heartbreaking to see how this has unfolded. At this stage, I am unable to say anything further, as I am addressing this through the appropriate legal channels.”
Since then Kyle has been very active, seeking to publicly reconcile with Jackie, saying he wants to be back on air, and finally beginning legal action on 23 March.
Jackie had not made any other public statements until today.
ANR shares have been relatively stable for the past month until this week, when a parcel of 3 million shares was bought at about 31 cents per share on 26 March. Today, in the first hour of trading since the latest announcement, the share price has dropped to 28 cents on trading so far of about 550,000 shares.
Sounds to me like buyers remorse, realising that she’s out of pocket 80m…
Took her 4 weeks to decide she was wrongly terminated? In the time taken for her to decide to pursue this Kyle has had his weeks of notice, been terminated, sued, and had his first hearing.
I obviously don’t know the details, but this feels like a cash grab.
She shouldn’t have been sacked because she told management that she felt unsafe working with Kyle. They did the wrong thing.
They both probably have a case but it might come down to whether a judge is prepared to award a huge settlement against a company with a market cap around 100 million, the consequences of which would be obvious.
OH!!!! Poor old Jackie. She must be down to her last hundred mil …
Ok so it’s look like she is not coming back to KIIS…. 2Day reunion?
You need to be careful commenting on legal matters, but I’d recommend everyone reading this to listen to the Gamechangers Podcast if you don’t already, especially the recent episode interviewing the lawyer who is not affiliated with KJ or ARN but gives expert commentary.
One thing he said is that the normal HR procedures and policies that you would find in a usual radio station don’t apply in this case because Kyle and Jackie were independent contractors, not announcers employed by the radio network.
So they want us believe that these 2 have a mortgage ? they’ve been on millions and millions of dollars for years now . They can pay with cash , to the ARN staff still left ! for God sake get out while you can ! run !
Does anyone care!