Christian Porter wins bid to keep secret ABC’s full defence in defamation case

Defamation 2021-07-30 10:20 am By Miklos Bolza | Sydney

Former Attorney-General Christian Porter has succeeded in scrubbing from the court record the ABC’s full defence in his now-settled defamation suit against the broadcaster, over the protests of media outlets, with a judge finding the principle of open justice was “not absolute”.