SEVEN years after shock jock Alan Jones called Sydney's Lebanese Muslims "vermin" who "infest our shores" and "rape" and "pillage" our nation, he must apologise.

The precise wording of the apology was agreed to in the Administrative Decisions Tribunal yesterday.

The apology must be read by him between 8am and 8.30am next week.

The apology will say:

"On 28 April 2005 on my breakfast program on Radio 2GB I broadcast comments about Lebanese males including Lebanese Muslims. The comments were made following a Channel Nine television current affairs show about the conduct of young Lebanese men in Hickson Road at the Rocks.

"The Administrative Decisions Tribunal has found that my comments incited serious contempt of Lebanese males including Lebanese Muslims.

"Those comments were in breach of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act. I apologise for making those comments which I recognise were unlawful. I also apologise on behalf of Radio 2 GB."

Sydney Lebanese leader Keysar Trad complained to the tribunal that Jones' comments in the three broadcasts breached discrimination laws and incited racial hatred against Lebanese Muslims.

The decision comes two months after Jones lost a lengthy legal bid to overturn the 2009 decision, which found he "incited hatred, serious contempt and severe ridicule of Lebanese Muslims".

In the original 2009 decision, the tribunal awarded $10,000 in damages to Mr Trad, ordered the presenter make a public apology within eight weeks, and directed Harbour Radio to conduct a "critical review of its policies and practices on racial vilification" and staff training in such matters.



In its latest decision handed down on Wednesday, the tribunal rejected a submission that an apology made by Jones on December 6 was "an adequate acknowledgment of wrongdoing".

With AAP