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The Australian newspaper has come under sustained attack this morning from several angles as its simmering spat with the nation’s academic community threatens to turn nuclear.

The Australian and reporter Chip Le Grand are being sued for defamation over a series of stories published last December in which a former Office of Police Integrity manager was accused of bullying.

AFP counter-terrorism tsar Steve Lancaster has told a court that he undertook a “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” process with The Australian’s Cameron Stewart to negotiate the terms of an anti-terror drop.

The Australian’s Cameron Stewart claims ex-police chief Simon Overland presided over the “police politics” that in his view was behind the OPI’s decision to pursue criminal charges against a junior source.

The Victoria Police officer charged with leaking details of an anti-terror raid to The Australian’s Cameron Stewart “dotted the Is and crossed the Ts”, the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court heard today.

Ex-police spinner Nicole McKechnie warned the AFP a botched plan to distribute copies of The Australian exposing an anti-terror raid the morning it occurred was flawed.

The Victoria Police officer charged with leaking to The Australian’s Cameron Stewart receives a glowing character reference from ex-colleagues at a committal hearing.

A discrepancy between two senior police officers has emerged on the fourth day of the committal hearing of the former police officer accused of leaking information about a terror raid to The Australian.

The swipe at me in The Australian’s Diary column this morning is so predictable one wonders if it is even worth a response, writes Margaret Simons.