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Mark Latham loses defamation case against Alex Greenwich, ordered to pay $140k in costs

Daanyal Saeed — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:47:13 +0000

The former NSW One Nation leader has been ordered to pay costs over a tweet that Greenwich described as 'defamatory and homophobic'.

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Read the full verdict of Mark Latham’s $140k defamation loss against MP Alex Greenwich

Crikey — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:38:18 +0000

Sydney MP Alex Greenwich has been awarded $140,000 after suing former One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham over defamation.

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Is Dutton racist? Doesn’t matter. Does he practise racism in public life? Yes, beyond doubt

Michael Bradley — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:38:12 +0000

Being racist is, appropriately, not illegal. Racial discrimination is unlawful. The hard question is determining when the performance of racist beliefs, by words, should be outside the law.

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‘Serious deficiencies’: Victoria Police, health services face criticism in coroner’s inquest into trans deaths

Jessi Ryan — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:37:04 +0000

'How do we hold people accountable and make people listen?'

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What have we learnt from the Reynolds v Higgins defamation saga?

Daanyal Saeed — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:01:56 +0000

The defamation case between Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins is drawing to a close. Here's a clarifier on everything we've gleaned from the trial.

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Locking up 10-year-olds is racist by design and in effect

Michael Bradley — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:34:17 +0000

If the age of criminal responsibility is lowered, almost all of the extra children arrested, incarcerated and institutionalised will be Indigenous.

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Reader reply: Debate over the age of criminal responsibility overlooks the true meaning of intervention

Maire Mannik — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:51:57 +0000

Criminal responsibility allows for interventions that divert children from re-offending — a process that must also be available to kids as young as 10.

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Should politicians be allowed to sue for defamation?

Brendan Clift — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:07:09 +0000

Australia's defamation laws historically favour reputation over freedom of speech, and our politicians aren't shy from using them.

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‘Exactly what the Kremlin hoped’: Australia delays Masha Gessen visa over Russia conviction concerns

Charlie Lewis — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:28:31 +0000

'I am shocked that the first allies the Russians have found in this quest to constrain me are the Australian authorities, who have functionally denied me a visa,' Gessen said.

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Victoria’s premier remains beholden to the state’s police force

Monique Hurley — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:59:03 +0000

It is neither fair nor just to continue caging children in youth prisons.

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