Upholding a complaint of ''racial vilification'' against Jones and 2GB, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal said yesterday a number of Jones's comments were neither reasonable nor made in good faith.

The tribunal had heard that, presenting his regular talkback show over a number of days in April 2005, Jones said Lebanese youths hated Australia and raped, pillaged and plundered the country, undermining its culture.

Jones also identified ''car hoons'' as Lebanese youths and said they disrespected the police.

He also expressed the view that Australia was not a multi-racial but a monocultural society and that this monoculture was now under threat from ''enemies within''.

The tribunal's ruling said, ''Mr Jones's comments about 'Lebanese males in their vast numbers' hating Australia and raping, pillaging, and plundering the country, about 'a national security' crisis and about the undermining of Australian culture by 'vermin' were reckless hyperbole calculated to agitate and excite his audience ...''

The tribunal also ruled that Jones interpreted a speech made by Lebanese-Australian cleric Sheik Faiz Mohammed in Bankstown as an excuse for sexual assaults by Muslim men on non-Muslim women.

Sydney-based Lebanese-born Muslim Keysar Trad complained to the tribunal.

He was later invited on to Jones's program for an exchange during which the presenter accused Mr Trad, as a Muslim leader, of doing nothing to stop car hoons or speeches such as the one said to have been made by Sheik Faiz Mohammed.

The tribunal awarded the damages and ordered the presenter to make a public apology, though its nature was not determined. ''We find that the complaint of racial vilification as against both respondents are substantiated,'' it said.

AAP