To see Christian Porter assume the role of leader of the House of Representatives is an insult to all survivors of sexual abuse.
The Federal Court has ordered that secret parts of the ABC’s written defence to a defamation suit brought against it by cabinet minister Christian Porter should be removed from its public records.
The Federal Court varied suppression orders on Wednesday to allow redacted parts of the ABC’s defence to be given to the South Australian Coroner.
The federal Liberal minister and his barrister have asked Jo Dyer’s lawyers to produce timesheets and other documents explaining how the costs were incurred.
Scientists are calling for more investment in local mRNA vaccine manufacturing as other countries in the region sign with global partners for mRNA facilities.
Media organisations,including Nine,are fighting to gain access to 27 pages of the ABC’s 37-page defence,which are redacted under a temporary suppression order.
Mr Porter is seeking to overturn three judgments and a suppression order in a case linked to his ABC defamation proceedings.
The original dossier detailing a rape allegation against former attorney-general Christian Porter has been made publicly available for the first time,including allegedly contemporaneous diary notes written by the woman who accused him shortly before taking her own life last year.
ABC presenter Annabel Crabb had a “boiling sense of rage and grief” when she learned an old debating colleague who accused federal minister Christian Porter of rape had taken her own life,according to messages detailed in court documents.
A push for an inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a minister has been stopped by the government’s unusual move to prevent a senator from introducing a bill.
A Federal Court judge on Friday ordered Mr Porter and Sue Chrysanthou,SC,pay Ms Dyer’s costs in the proceedings.