Recent defamation actions and rulings have raised questions whether these legal manoeuvres are worth the trouble.
Starting Monday,this trial is the biggest defamation action in living memory.
A ceremony without a red carpet or an audience wasn’t the only thing coronavirus messed up for this year’s ARIA awards.
Two alterations to media law will provide support to serious journalism.
NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman says an existing public interest defence"never works"for mass media outlets.
While the momentum of #MeToo reporting appears to have waned,the issue has returned to the spotlight with a spate of TV shows,films and books about its chief heroes and villains.
Actor Yael Stone has never chosen the easy course and the same applies to her commitment to minimise her own carbon footprint.
Rush,68,sued Nationwide News and a journalist over two front-page stories and a newsagent poster published in late 2017.
The newspaper's publisher has abandoned a claim that the judge in the actor's defamation case acted in a way that made him appear to be biased.
The Daily Telegraph is free to criticise the decision in the Geoffrey Rush defamation case,a Federal Court judge has said.
The tabloid is seeking access to parts of the audio recording of the Geoffrey Rush trial because it believes the judge's"tone"is relevant to its appeal.