{"id":543297,"date":"2026-03-16T04:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543297\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:13:15","slug":"alex-waislitz-breaks-silence-on-allegations-facing-antony-catalano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/543297\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Waislitz breaks silence on allegations facing Antony Catalano"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kishor<\/p>\n

March 16, 2026 \u2014 12:38pm<\/p>\n

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Media boss Antony Catalano\u2019s deep-pocketed backer Alex Waislitz has declared that all staff at their companies will be \u201csupported and heard\u201d after the former Domain boss was charged with assault against a woman last week.<\/p>\n

Catalano, executive chair of Australian Community Media and owner of classified group View Media, was charged by Victoria Police with dragging a woman around an apartment by her hair and ankles and swinging a clothes iron at her head, in an alleged assault that left her with a broken coccyx.<\/p>\n

\"AlexAlex Waislitz says staff at Australian Community Media will be supported and heard.Eamon Gallagher<\/p>\n

He was released on bail on Friday and, in a statement, said he would immediately check in to a rehabilitation facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Waislitz, who partnered with Catalano to buy the stable of newspapers including The Canberra Times and The Newcastle Herald under the Australian Community Media group in 2019, said the allegations against Catalano were \u201cconfronting and concerning\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"AntonyAntony Catalano is charged with assaulting a woman in Melbourne.Jason South<\/p>\n

\u201cThe immediate priority is the wellbeing of the employees and all stakeholders of Australian Community Media and View Media Group,\u201d he said. \u201cBoth companies will ensure that all employees are supported and heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

This masthead reported that there had been rumours of a potential sale of the Community Media business. Waislitz did not address that directly but said both it and View were strong organisations with experienced teams that would run them in Catalano\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth companies will continue to protect their long-term interests, their employees, partners and other stakeholders whilst maintaining their integrity and governance practices,\u201d Waislitz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy thoughts are with all those affected by this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"KishorKishor Napier-Raman<\/a> is a senior business writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously he worked as a CBD columnist and reporter in the federal parliamentary press gallery.Connect via X<\/a> or email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 16, 2026 \u2014 12:38pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-543297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}