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In her revelations in The Sunday Telegraph, Hansen – who was a journalist at Nine between 1995 and 2008 before joining News Corp in 2009 – claimed the book was a result of television’s problematic boys’ club.
“As veterans of the television world, we were horrified by the despicable behaviour of the men in charge. So we decided to make our small protest against it,” Hansen said.
“When we wrote Boned, we had both left our jobs. We had young babies and we were freelancing. We’d also been beaten down by the boys’ club. We’d been bullied. But we were never victims,” she wrote.
A former war correspondent who reported from some of the most dangerous places on the planet, Jane Hansen passed away on the Gold Coast on Tuesday night.
Hansen joined News Corp in 2009, where she wrote extensively as a columnist and reporter about the anti-vaccination and anti-fluoride movements in New South Wales, as well as driving the high-profile No Jab No Play campaign. Most recently, Hansen was the writer and host of Mother’s Guilt, a podcast exploring the criminal case against Kathleen Folbigg.