Costly defamation action looms large over Australian newsrooms. It’s diminishing press freedom
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
ShutterstockThis piece is the final of a three part series on Australia’s defamation laws. You can read the other pieces here and here.
Defamation laws exist to strike a balance between press freedom and the protection of people’s reputations from wrongful harm. In Australia, this balance has always been loaded against press freedom.
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