Episode 1
It's Not Safe At Home
She trusted her father completely—until he began sexually abusing her at age 10, night after night, in the family home. With her mother distracted and her siblings nearby but unaware, she learned to freeze, disappear, and survive. By 14, the abuse stopped, but the trauma didn’t. Now in her 40s, she reveals how her charming father also preyed on cousins and other girls—exposing the devastating truth that the greatest danger often lives behind the front door. Her question lingers long after the episode ends: When do I get to feel safe?
L-R: Narrator: Antoinette Lattouf, Story-writer: Caroline Brunne, Producers: Tanya Lee & Zoe Carides
Antoinette Lattouf | Journalist, Presenter, Author & Human Rights Advocate
Antoinette Lattouf is an award winning journalist, presenter, author and human rights advocate whose surname has now become a verb - Lattoufed: to be sacked or silenced for standing your ground. She is the co-founder of Independent media company Ette Media and the co-host of We Used To Be Journos podcast.
Her landmark win, Lattouf v ABC, became a flashpoint in debates about free speech, employee rights, institutional cowardice, and what happens when a journalist speaks truth to (media) power.
She’s the co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, a TEDx speaker, and a regular fixture on lists like the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. Her first book, How to Lose Friends and Influence White People, somehow won her friends. She’s now finishing her second - Women Who Win - an exploration of women who saw the rulebook, chuckled and used it as a coaster (out April 2026).
Antoinette’s work spans commercial and public broadcasting, boardrooms, courtrooms, and the occasional Murdoch media pile-on. And no, she’s not done yet.