The Latest Breaking News from Federal Court

Federal Court defamation proceedings between Clive Palmer and Mark McGowan get underway in Sydney, as the court is shown videos of press conferences in which the Premier calls the billionaire "selfish" and says he is "the enemy of the state".

The government has put a key slice of Newcastle port land on the market three days before the competition watchdog launches a Federal Court appeal over the state's port lease deals.

Businessman Clive Palmer is expected to tell a court that statements made by West Australian Premier Mark McGowan had a "real and serious impact" on him.

Spoiled food, thugs with badges, and strip searches in school.

OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a plea from family and supporters of a slain Mexican activist — killed after opposing a Canadian company's mining project — to have a federal ombudsman investigate the matter.

The High Court has ruled in favour of an unskilled backpacker who worked at a Perth construction site and argued he was rightly an employee, not a contractor.

Ben Roberts-Smith's lawyer has accused a witness of trying to throw the war hero under a proverbial bus after a clarification emerged in the Federal Court.

The Federal Court has rejected an appeal by Facebook after the Australian regulator sued the digital company following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Psilocybin, prayer oil, and net neutrality.

"The record creates a strong inference that the services are discriminatorily and systematically denying religious exemptions without a meaningful and fair hearing and without the showing required under RFRA (while simultaneously granting medical exemptions and permitting unvaccinated persons to continue in service without adverse consequence)."

The BBC analyses the serial numbers of a range of COVID tests in Serbia, finding that Novak Djokovic's positive test may have occurred later than documents he submitted to the Federal Court indicated.