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Peter Duttons defamation case against a refugee advocate has come to an end after an agreement was struck ...

Last week, the Full Court of the Federal Court overturned the finding that a refugee activist had defamed Peter Dutton MP in a tweet early last year. The decision highlights, lawyers say, that the

For his legal flight against Peter Dutton's lawsuit against him for a tweet.

Published April 27, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. CONTENT WARNING: This article mentions rape. O’Brien Criminal and Civil Solicitors have released its official media statement in defence of refugee and asylum seeker advocate Shane Bazzi, who is currently ...

At the height of controversy regarding Brittany Higgins’ allegation that she had been raped in then-defence minister Linda Reynolds’ office by a fellow Liberal staffer, Dutton said he was not aware of the “she said, he said details of the allegations”. Dutton’s language prompted a backlash from his political opponents, including a tweet published on 25 February by Bazzi claiming “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist”. Bazzi pasted a link to a June 2019 Guardian Australia article repor...

First published on Wed 7 Apr 2021 02.29 EDT The defence minister, Peter Dutton, has begun issuing defamation threats to social media users for claiming he is a “rape apologist”. Dutton has decided to take a more aggressive stance against false and defamatory statements posted about him online, and has already extracted an apology from the Greens senator Larissa Waters. Waters accepted that there was “no basis” for her suggestion that Dutton “sought to conceal and dismiss reports of ra...