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Defamation is the new battleground of the culture wars

Politicians have always pursued defamation cases, but it’s hard to avoid the sense right-wing figures use defamation to pursue culture wars too.

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Lehrmann proceedings day 10 – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: surgery times spiral, daily letter deliveries to end, Gaza fighting ‘most intense yet’

New data shows elective surgery wait lists are highest ever recorded; Australia Post to annouce end of five-day-a-week letter delivery service as losses grow

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Turnbull’s a friend in deed for Macron

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has been building bridges over the troubled waters of Australia and France’s Scott Morrison-shipwrecked relationship, and the News Corp campaign to unseat Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk continues unabated.

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Brittany Higgins volunteered to be defamation trial witness as she ‘would not let rapist become a millionaire’, court hears

Higgins also tells court she had ‘no issue’ with a second criminal trial but it was ruled out by her medical condition

The Guardian - AU

Channel Seven paid $4,000 a fortnight in rent for Bruce Lehrmann interview, documents reveal

Document uploaded by the federal court suggests former Liberal staffer’s deal with the network may be worth $104,000

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Higgins challenged over account of alleged rape; EV sales up 50k in last year; and NYC woman dies in garbage chute

Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister casts doubt over how drunk Brittany Higgins was on the night of the alleged rape at Parliament House

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Lehrmann proceedings day nine – as it happened

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David Van, call me ‘senator sixpack’

David Van, former Liberal now independent ‘senator sixpack’, chatted up women on his official Instagram account using terms such as ‘babe’, ‘hon’ and ‘darling’, and leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price knocked back requests for interviews from the ABC at least 52 times.

Crikey

Higgins denies attempt to 'blow up' rape retrial

Brittany Higgins has rejected assertions a speech she gave after the jury was discharged in Bruce Lehrmann's criminal case was designed to derail a retrial.

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Vote now for Crikey’s prestigious Arsehat of the Year

At the end of every year, we summon the last of our energy to ask ‘why is it like this?’ Vote now for your culprit in Crikey’s Arsehat of the Year award.

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Walkley awards to review ‘chequebook journalism’ rules after Bruce Lehrmann rent payment revealed in court

The journalism foundation board did not say it would withdraw Seven’s shortlisting for the 2023 scoop of the year award for Liam Bartlett’s interview with Lehrmann

The Guardian - AU

Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: two lives in the balance over the rape allegations dividing Australia

In a dramatic week in court, Lehrmann was cross-examined for the first time over the allegation he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in Canberra, which he strenuously denies

The Guardian - AU

Brittany Higgins wore dress she was allegedly raped in to Liberal function weeks later to ‘reclaim it’, court hears

Former Liberal staffer tells federal court defamation trial she initially thought she could ‘disassociate’ from the alleged rape

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Afternoon Update: Brittany Higgins cross-examination continues; Smithsonian returns Indigenous remains; and first LGBTQ+ couple legally weds in south Asia

Higgins says she wore white pencil dress at Liberal party function after the alleged rape because she was ‘trying to reclaim it’

The Guardian - AU

Channel Seven’s Bruce Lehrmann scoop gets an unwelcome new airing

Awkward questions follow admission in defamation trial that Seven paid Lehrmann’s rent for a year. Plus: Rod Carnegie survives, whatever Nine may say

The Guardian - AU

Lehrmann proceedings day eight - as it happened

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22bn tonnes of CO2 emissions on the cards

If the Labor government approves the 30 coal and gas projects on the table it could put 22 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and Anthony Albanese has mocked the 15-strong Coalition group that attended the ‘cooker fest’ in London last month.

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Bruise may not have been from alleged rape: Higgins

Brittany Higgins has been quizzed over a bruise allegedly sustained on the night of her claimed rape at Parliament House in Canberra.

The Guardian - AU

Brittany Higgins visibly angry and in tears as Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister accuses her of lying about alleged rape

Higgins tells court ‘it wasn’t my primary concern where my dress was’ during alleged rape as she faces questions under cross-examination

Crikey

Australia’s media: Just another corporate interest, one that leaks journalism as a byproduct

Do we have a commercial media in Australia, or just corporations that accidentally produce journalism while using their influence to dictate policy?

The Guardian - AU

Lehrmann proceedings day seven – as it happened

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Lehrmann’s house of lies, Ben Roberts-Smith pays, and television mourns Bridget Munro

This week in Media Briefs, both Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins take the stand in the defamation action between Lehrmann and Network 10.

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Labor dealing with David Van disgraceful: Lidia Thorpe

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan water deal with Senator David Van who Thorpe has accused of sexual assault, and the Australian privacy watchdog said it couldn’t do anything about a company accessing personal emails because the employee had used a work laptop.

The Canberra Times

Senior prosecutor to be embedded in police sexual assault team

Inquiry revealed some officers were 'confused' about when to charge.

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