A judge has ordered the former head of collapsed vocational training organisation Australian Careers Network to foot the legal bill of Nationwide News, likely to exceed $ 1 million, for a defamation case he brought and lost.
Australia’s biggest media companies want to lend their weight to an appeal by Bauer Media of a historic $4.5 million award handed to actor Rebel Wilson last year in a defamation case.
A Federal Court judge has ordered that newspaper articles that the president of the Australian Imams Council, Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, claims are defamatory of him be removed from several News Corp. websites.
The competition regulator on Wednesday released updated guidelines for media merger reviews, saying key to its analysis would be competition and media diversity, the impact of new technology and access to premium content.