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Lachlan Murdoch Sues Australian News Site Over Jan. 6 Opinion Column

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The New York Times. Australia recently imposed new defamation standards that require plaintiffs to prove a publication caused “serious harm” to their reputations while defendants can argue the published pieces are protected by public interest.

The piece in question, penned by politics editor Bernard Keane, ran June 29 with the headline, “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor.

And Murdoch is his unidentified co-conspirator.” Keane concluded his piece by writing, “If Trump ends up in the dock for a variety of crimes committed as president, as he should be, not all his co-conspirators will be there with him.

Nixon was famously the ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in Watergate. The Murdochs and their slew of poisonous Fox News commentators are the unindicted co-conspirators of this continuing crisis.”Churchill initially claimed the article was defamatory in his first communication to Crikey.

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