Google searches for Christian Porter jumped after ABC report, lawyers say

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Google searches for Christian Porter jumped after ABC report, lawyers say | MWhitbourn

Google searches for Christian Porter increased significantly after the ABC published an online article setting out a rape allegation against an unnamed cabinet minister, his lawyers say in documents filed in the Federal Court as part of his defamation claim against the broadcaster.

“Part of Mr Porter’s case will be inferential, based on the overwhelming material that we are continuing to collate,” Mr Porter’s lawyer, Rebekah Giles, says in a letter to the ABC emailed on March 23 andMr Porter’s legal team provided a schedule of tweets and other social media posts that they say support their case that he was widely identified as the subject of the article.

“Based on information provided to NSW Police, there is insufficient admissible evidence to proceed. As such, NSW Police Force has determined the matter is now closed,” police said in a statement in March.The ABC has yet to file a defence, but among a range of defences it may seek to argue that it did not assert that Mr Porter had committed any crime but instead made less serious allegations.

 

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