Channel 7 loses defamation case over ‘manifestly unreasonable’ welfare cheat story

Article 2019-10-01 5:18 pm By Amelia Birnie | Sydney

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Channel Seven has lost a six-year defamation battle over a Today Tonight story that described a woman on single parenting payments as “the Centrelink cheat who got away”, after an appeals court found the publication was “manifestly unreasonable”.

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