Sooner or later there will be a tort of privacy in Australia and the media might as well get used to the idea.
Long before the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed News International, the London Metropolitan Police and the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, the courts of law in Australia, New Zealand and Britain had shown that there was legal momentum towards a right to sue for breach of privacy.
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