Happy Friday. The domino effect of the Dominion-Fox settlement earlier this week has hit Australian shores, with Lachlan Murdoch dropping his defamation lawsuit against Crikey.
In a statement, Murdoch said he was confident he would have won but didn’t want to “enable Crikey’s use of the court to … facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers”. The chief executive of Crikey’s publisher called it “a victory for free speech”.
