Tag: Deeming v Pesutto
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ABC Bias in Terminology Used to Describe the Let Women Speak Rally – Letter to the ABC Ombudsman
Below is an email exchange between Anthony Johnson and the ABC Ombudsman’s office. Anthony contacted us to share his experience of ABC bias, which he thought might be of interest. Anthony wrote: “I have made two complaints to the ABC about the language used to describe the Let Women Speak rally, held in Melbourne 2023.…
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Analysis — Deeming v Pesutto (Federal Court of Australia)
Key outcome The Federal Court found that Victorian MP John Pesutto defamed fellow MP Moira Deeming on multiple occasions after a March 2023 rally; Justice David O’Callaghan concluded the publications conveyed imputations that Deeming “knowingly associated with” or “sympathised” with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Deeming was awarded $300,000 in damages. Pesutto’s defences (public interest, honest…