Christian Porter wins bid to keep secret ABC’s full defence in defamation case

ABC 2021-07-30 10:20 am By Miklos Bolza | Sydney

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Former Attorney-General Christian Porter has succeeded in scrubbing from the court record the ABC’s full defence in his now-settled defamation suit against the broadcaster, over the protests of media outlets, with a judge finding the principle of open justice was “not absolute”.

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