Antoinette Lattouf was let go after three days of a week-long fill-in stint on ABC Radio Sydney's Mornings program when she shared a Human Rights Watch post that said Israel used starvation as a "weapon of war" in Gaza.
She went after the ABC in the Fair Work Commission and escalated the case to the Federal Court, where she sued for penalties and damages.
But the broadcaster's barrister Ian Neil SC said that Lattouf had actually furthered her freelance career following the controversy surrounding her truncated December 2023 radio stint.
In closing submissions to the court on Thursday, he noted the journalist had grown her Instagram following after her dismissal and that she admitted under cross-examination the increased online reach helped in her work.
"Are you going to be submitting that she benefited from her treatment ... at the ABC?" Justice Darryl Rangiah asked.
"Yes," Mr Neil said.
Lattouf took to the witness box during seven hotly contested days of evidence earlier in February, when key figures from the public broadcaster also appeared.
They included former chair Ita Buttrose and outgoing managing director David Anderson.
The 41-year-old journalist claims she was ousted after pressure from a pro-Israel lobby group that sent swathes of complaints to the ABC.
The ABC denies this, saying she was let go after failing to obey a direction not to post anything relating to Israel or Gaza while she worked there.
Lattouf's barrister Oshie Fagir is also presenting closing arguments about why his client believes ABC breached the law.
Executives from the broadcaster recently revealed it had spent $1.1 million in taxpayer funds defending the case to date after its failed attempts to reach a settlement.
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