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You Liar: never charged, but “suspected murderer” Sands loses defamation case

An extraordinary five year defamation case, involving a TV station, a radio network, a federal MP and a press photographer, ended yesterday when the court ruled in favour of the media organisations.

Which 16 seats should we be watching?

The ALP is sixteen seats short of a House of Representatives majority, and you can plot those sixteen most marginal government-held seats along the pendulum. Of course, it doesn’t really work that way, writes Peter Brent.