Victoria Police have charged a man with menacing and threatening ABC journalist Mark Willacy and his family.
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The 25-year-old Lara man has been charged with making a threat to kill and using a telecommunication device to menace.
The charges relate to an anonymous threatening voicemail message Willacy received last month.
"Hey Mark, how you going you f***ing paedo c***," the caller said.
"I hope your kids get COVID and I'm going to slit your old lady's throat, ya dog."
The man has been summoned to appear before Geelong Magistrates' Court on June 29 next year.
Willacy last year won Australian journalism's highest honour, the Gold Walkley, for his reporting on alleged war crimes by Australian forces in Afghanistan.
