EXCLUSIVEMajor twist in case of one-time ABC star Emma Alberici's daughter as she faces court after being charged with breaking a door at mum's house
- Emma Alberici was ABC economics correspondent
- Alberici was made redundant by the ABC in 2020
- Teen daughter accused of damaging mother's door
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The 19-year-old daughter of television presenter Emma Alberici has been cleared of breaking a door at her mother's home almost a year after she was charged.
Allegra McCauley was the subject of an interim apprehended violence taken out by police to protect her mother but that application has also been withdrawn.
McCauley had pleaded not guilty to intentionally damaging or destroying 'skirting around the door' at Alberici's Coogee home in Sydney's eastern suburbs about midday on December 29 last year.
Under the interim restraining order issued after that alleged incident McCauley had been prevented from going within 50m of the former ABC reporter's house or place of employment.
Allegra McCauley, the 19-year-old daughter of television presenter Emma Alberici, has been cleared of breaking a door at her mother's home in Sydney's eastern suburbs. McCauley is pictured
McCauley, who has worked as a waitress and barmaid, is one of 53-year-old Alberici's three children with ex-husband Jason McCauley.
Alberici was a foreign correspondent and chief economics correspondent for the national broadcaster, where she also hosted Lateline for five years.
She was made redundant by the ABC in 2020.
Alberici, who has generally kept her personal life private, married 60 Minutes sound recordist McCauley in 2003 and the couple separated in 2016.
Their daughter first faced Waverley Local Court in January when her lawyer entered a not guilty plea to the property offence and indicated she would be opposing the AVO application.
On Thursday, McCauley returned to the same court for a hearing but the charge was dismissed and the AVO application withdrawn.
Alberici, who was once a reporter for the Nine Network's A Current Affair, became the ABC's chief economics correspondent after Lateline was axed in October 2017.
Allegra McCauley had been prevented from going within 50m of her mother Emma Alberici's house or place of work. An application for an apprehended violence to protect Alberici (above) was withdrawn
In that role she wrote a news story for the ABC website in February 2018 which stated only one of five large Australian companies paid tax, as well as an analysis piece critical of the Coalition federal government's proposed company tax cuts.
Then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull attacked Alberici in parliament over the news story which he described as 'one of the most confused and poorly researched articles I've seen on this topic'.
The ABC took down the story and analysis but both were edited and republished after negotiations between the broadcaster and a lawyer acting for Alberici.
Supporters of the journalist accused the ABC of buckling to pressure from Mr Turnbull and claimed Alberici had been unfairly targeted.
The ABC claimed it had identified errors or misleading statements in Alberici's company tax cuts story and found her analysis piece lacked impartiality.
She was made redundant in 2020 and reached a settlement with the ABC after taking a complaint to the Fair Work Commission.
McCauley, one of the former ABC journalist's three children with ex-husband Jason McCauley, appeared in Waverley Local Court on Thursday. She is pictured at the same court in January
Alberici responded to news of that settlement in a social media post which referred to then ABC director of news Gaven Morris.
'It is true that the ABC and I reached an agreement yesterday,' she wrote.
'After 18 years of loyal service, including as one of the country's first mother foreign correspondents (with three kids under three) I am no longer employed by them.
'Despite the enormous toll his actions have taken on my mental health, Gaven Morris wanted to call it a termination payout, no doubt so he could tell the world I was fired for incompetence or some such.
'To be crystal clear: I have never coveted the camera. I will no longer be on TV and will not accept any role if it's offered. It is too painful to be in the public eye. For further removal of doubt, I have been made no offers from anyone in the media.'
Since then, Alberici has worked in strategy, government relations and communications for financial comparison website Compare the Market then as a headhunter for recruitment firm Derwent.
Alberici's memoir Rewrite the Story was published in November 2022 and she is an ambassador for the children's cancer charity Camp Quality.
