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Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson has secured a courtroom victory after she was found not to have defamed her co-star.
Wilson was sued by Australian actor Charlotte MacInnes, who played the lead role in Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb.
MacInnes alleged the Pitch Perfect star defamed her in a series of social media posts she claimed implied she was a liar and a sellout who walked back a sexual harassment complaint to further her career.
But two months after the conclusion of the hotly contested court battle, Justice Elizabeth Raper found MacInnes “failed to establish that the publications have caused or were likely to cause serious harm”.
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The Milky Way has been captured in all its splendour above Fujin, in north-east China’s Heilongjiang province.
What they said …
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“Normalising this victim blaming rhetoric in relation to domestic violence when 38 Australian women have already been lost to femicide is atrocious.” – Brittany Higgins
The former Liberal staffer has decried comments made by One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, who said domestic violence was “wrong, but it’s also a two-way street”.
Podcast
The man building swimming pools in Gaza
For decades, Amjed Tantesh has taught children in Gaza how to swim, but each time the journalist builds a pool, it ends up being destroyed by an Israeli attack.
He tells Annie Kelly about his efforts to rebuild five pools on the beach as children describe their experience restarting their swimming lessons.
Before bed read
Australia is gearing up for medals galore at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
With the opening ceremony set to kick off on Friday morning, Caitlin Cassidy explains everything you need to know about this humble sporting event.
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: POTE. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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