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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’