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The ABC and its journalists engaged in a culture war with other media over its defamatory reporting accusing former special forces commando Heston Russell of war crimes, a judge found.

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The ABC will face further backlash after losing deformatoin trial againast former special forces commando, likley to cost taxpayers $3.5million in legal costs.

The ABC’s PR department earns several mentions in a recent judgment, as part of a bid to illustrate the organisation’s institutional defensiveness.

Broadcaster must pay Russell $390,000 but judge did not award aggravated damages, finding the former commando ‘embraced the public controversy’

A former special forces commando has won his defamation case against the ABC after a Federal Court judge ruled the national broadcaster could not prove articles were in the public interest.

Sydney, Australia, Oct 16 (EFE).- An Australian court on Monday ordered Australian public broadcaster ABC to compensate former military man Heston Russell in a defamation case linked to the publication of articles about war crimes supposedly committed in 2012 in Afghanistan. The amount of ordinary compensation ABC must pay is AUD390,000 ($246,363), according to the …

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The former commando’s barrister has urged the Federal Court to reject the ABC’s public interest defence and award damages in his defamation case.

Federal court hears closing submissions in defamation case brought by Russell against the public broadcaster