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Actor Geoffrey Rush will star in Raised Eyebrows, a biopic about comedian Groucho Marx.

Rush back to the big screen

Geoffrey Rush is back after what we can only politely refer to as a career hiatus since he won his 2018 case (bar one part in the small Australian film Storm Boy).

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A ceremony without a red carpet or an audience wasn’t the only thing coronavirus messed up for this year’s ARIA awards.

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Sue Chrysanthou SC with actor Geoffrey Rush during his Federal Court defamation case last year.

Geoffrey Rush defamation barrister joins coveted rank of silks

Sydney barrister Sue Chrysanthou, one of the city's best-known defamation barristers, has been appointed to the coveted rank of senior counsel.

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New readership data shows The Sydney Morning Herald was the top title in December.

Legal changes needed to support public interest journalism

Two alterations to media law will provide support to serious journalism.

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NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman has spearheaded a push to reform national defamation laws.

Defamation law set for overhaul to protect public interest journalism

NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman says an existing public interest defence "never works" for mass media outlets.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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