Veteran Nine presenter Amber Sherlock’s shock sacking weeks before her 50th birthday has ignited a landmark legal battle over whether Australia’s TV networks are quietly “aging out” women from prime-time screens
For nearly two decades, Amber Sherlock was a familiar presence in Sydney lounge rooms: a steady, on-brand face of Nine’s 6pm News, whose profile survived everything from the nightly bulletin grind to the viral “JacketGate” storm. Now her departure from the network, just weeks shy of her 50th birthday, has become a test case for how Australian television treats women as they age.
At the heart of Sherlock’s claim is a simple, incendiary allegation: that in an industry still comfortable with male anchors in their 60s and 70s, she was quietly deemed too old to front the weather at 49.
Sherlock has launched legal action in the Federal Court, alleging unlawful dismissal and a breach of “general protections” under workplace law. In parallel filings in the Federal Circuit Court, she claims that Nine’s decision to make her redundant in November 2025 – and not redeploy her – was driven by “a hybrid combination” of age and sex.
In short, Sherlock claims that she was removed because she was an “almost 50-year-old woman.” Nine, facing scrutiny on several fronts, emphatically denies it.
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