Rape allegations ‘could not be dismissed as trivial’, ABC says in defence to Porter suit

Bret Walker 2021-05-07 9:03 pm By Cat Fredenburgh | Melbourne

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The ABC has come out swinging in its defence to former attorney-general Christian Porter’s lawsuit over an allegedly defamatory article concerning historical rape allegations, saying there were reasonable grounds for suspecting Porter brutally raped a girl when they were teenagers and that it had a duty to publish the article.

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