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Alan Jones, radio stations must pay $3.75M for defaming Wagner family
Defamation 2018-09-12 12:31 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Broadcaster Alan Jones and two radio stations have been ordered to pay $3.75 million for defaming a prominent Queensland family by blaming them for the deaths of 12 people in the 2011 Grantham floods.

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Touchpoint Media hit with $265k fine for underpaying journalists
Media 2018-09-10 11:10 am By Cat Fredenburgh

The Federal Court has ordered Queensland online news company Touchpoint Media to pay over $300,000 in wages owed to journalists and slapped the company with a $265,000 fine.

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Truth defence tossed in Chau Chak Wing defamation case
Defamation 2018-08-31 10:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has thrown out the truth defence claimed by the ABC and Fairfax Media in a case brought by Chinese billionaire and philanthropist Dr Chau Chak Wing.

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Mark Latham’s defamation defence the ‘antithesis of a pleading’, judge says
Defamation 2018-08-30 9:18 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge on Thursday struck out former Prime Minister Mark Latham’s defence in a defamation case filed against him by the political editor of pop culture site Junkee, calling it an “extraordinary document” and the “antithesis of a pleading”.

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Nine defeats bid to block ‘A Current Affair’ episode
Media 2018-08-22 8:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Nine Network has defeated a bid by a property developer planning a defamation suit to block the television network from running an episode of “A Current Affair” that he says could harm his reputation.

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ACCC puts Fairfax, Nine merger review on fast track
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-16 9:09 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The ACCC will decide by November 8 whether the proposed merger of Nine Entertainment with Fairfax Media raises competition concerns.

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Law firm must pay for ‘ineffective’ radio ads, court says
Contracts 2018-08-14 9:21 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Employment law firm McDonald Murholme has lost an appeal in a case over $37,000 in unpaid bills for five months of radio advertisements on the Victorian Radio Network the firm said were ineffective.

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Nationwide can bring justification defence in Geoffrey Rush defamation case
Defamation 2018-08-10 2:24 pm By Christine Caulfield

The publisher of The Daily Telegraph has won its bid to bring a defence of justification against claims by actor Geoffrey Rush that the newspaper defamed him in articles alleging the actor behaved “inappropriately” during a production of King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company.

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ACCC urged to block Nine, Fairfax merger
Media 2018-07-26 8:59 pm By Miklos Bolza

Australia’s largest media union has called on the ACCC to block the proposed merger of Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media, saying it’s a threat to media diversity in an already heavily consolidated media industry.

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Streem gets licence extension in dispute with Copyright Agency
Intellectual Property 2018-07-05 11:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Media monitoring company Streem has been granted interim relief in its dispute with the Copyright Agency Limited over the terms of an agreement to sublicence news content from leading publishers, including News Corp, Fairfax Media, and Bauer Media. 

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