Editors rarely sue for defamation in the modern era, for many good reasons, writes Mark Pearson, professor of journalism at Bond University.
Defamation laws
Killing Greg Shackleton, again and again and again
A live person cannot even use the D word against someone who is assassinating a dead person’s character because of the likelihood of being charged with defamation, writes Shirley Shackleton.
On freedom of speech and Gerald Fredrick Toben
We should be speaking up for him now, rather than waiting for a more appealing victim of this attack on free speech.
David Jones drops corporate paedophilia case against think tank
David Jones has dropped its landmark case against controversial claims of “corporate paedophilia”, writes Sophie Black.
Cardboard Kev makes a mockery of flesh Kev’s parliament
We’ve had stunts galore so far from the Government, so the Opposition’s antics on Friday can’t really be faulted, writes Bernard Keane.
News Corp’s press freedom hypocrisy
News Ltd chairman John Hartigan gave quite an entertaining and interesting address for the Andrew Olle memorial lecture last Friday. However, there was a touch of hypocrisy in some of his comments when you consider what his boss Rupert Murdoch was doing in New York a couple of hours later, writes Stephen Mayne.
Larvartus Prodeo / Thursday, 20 August 2009
A blogger posts inflammatory comments online about a Vogue model. A court then insists the blogger be identified, so the model can sue for defamation. What if that happened in Australia? Would it change what people wrote online?