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The defamation action between Christian Porter and the ABC has ended without going to court, with the former attorney-general settling for an ABC acknowledgement it hadn’t suggested he was guilty, regretted some may have read its report that way, and did not contend the accusations against him could be substantiated to a legal standard. There were no damages awarded and the ABC paid only mediation costs (apart from its own).
As Michelle Grattan writes, both parties claimed vindication. Porter, she says, might have judged the case too risky — and certainly too expensive — to continue, and considered it “better to spin a settlement than play for more and possibly lose everything”. The broadcaster, meanwhile, stood by its report by investigative journalist Louise Milligan.
Porter says he will — to the surprise of some — recontest the next election. But whatever ambitions he may have nursed of becoming his party’s leader have been well and truly laid to rest.
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Christian Porter has settled in his defamation case against the ABC and reporter Louise Milligan
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