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Clive Palmer vs Mark McGowan defamation trial.

When a defamation action ‘isn’t worth the candle’

Recent defamation actions and rulings have raised questions whether these legal manoeuvres are worth the trouble.

  • Marina Olsen

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Ben Roberts-Smith.

Ben Roberts-Smith: A war-crimes trial masquerading as defamation action

Starting Monday, this trial is the biggest defamation action in living memory.

  • Matt Collins
ARIA's Breakthrough Artist winners Lime Cordiale.

Dusty and disappointed: What went down at the ARIAs after-parties

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

  • Nathanael Cooper
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
Clockwise from top left: Morning Wars; Nicole Kidman in Bombshell; The Loudest Voice; Toni Collette in Unbelievable.

Two Years after #MeToo, the shift in culture is only getting started

While the momentum of #MeToo reporting appears to have waned, the issue has returned to the spotlight with a spate of TV shows, films and books about its chief heroes and villains.

  • Greg Callaghan
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Actor Yael Stone, right, and Jean Hinchliffe, organiser of the School Strike 4 Climate, will speak at the All About Women festival.

Why Yael Stone's immigration lawyer is not her biggest fan right now

Actor Yael Stone has never chosen the easy course and the same applies to her commitment to minimise her own carbon footprint.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Actor Geoffrey Rush enters the Supreme Court with his wife Jane Menelaus.

Slur to suggest Geoffrey Rush 'delivered lines in witness box', appeal hearing told

Rush, 68, sued Nationwide News and a journalist over two front-page stories and a newsagent poster published in late 2017.

  • Georgina Mitchell
Geoffrey Rush outside court on Monday.

The Daily Telegraph abandons claims that Geoffrey Rush trial judge appeared to be biased

The newspaper's publisher has abandoned a claim that the judge in the actor's defamation case acted in a way that made him appear to be biased.

  • Georgina Mitchell
Geoffrey Rush leaves the Federal Court in April after his defamation win.

Judge refuses to grant gag order in Geoffrey Rush defamation case

The Daily Telegraph is free to criticise the decision in the Geoffrey Rush defamation case, a Federal Court judge has said.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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