. During this time, as the new opposition leader, Dutton had launched a PR campaign to present himself as a softer, kinder, gentler Dutton. This was not the Dutton I knew.
The ultimate outcome was that I was vindicated by the full court of the federal court, which found that I did not defame him. All the money raised by crowdfunding went to my legal team. None of that money went to Dutton.Law surrounding crowdfunding is still undecided and ultimately I chose to settle the matter rather than risk losing and getting a costs order against me or end up in further litigation in the high court, which would be protracted and very expensive.
It is an extraordinary experience to be sued for defamation by someone who has built his political career off being a political head kicker, a hard man of the right, presiding over a brutal detention system, vilifying Lebanese Muslim immigrants, fear-mongering about “African gang violence” in Melbourne, attacking the media and advocates, making jokes about rising sea levels in the Pacific Islands nations and boycotting the apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008.
KenCoutts4 PeterDutton_MP should be one of the first to face an ICAC. Au Pairs, Paladin & protection of alleged rapists etc should be investigated!
I have experienced veiled & not so veiled threats from an (ex) Member of Parliament in my state for calling out their bullying esp. towards women. Many people have warned me to be careful because with a healthy pension if he wanted to he could make my life (& my family's) v hard
Frankly, defamation laws in Australia need a bit of a fixer upper.
Thankyou for the post. All Twitter need to read the entire article. It confirms what we intuit re: Dutton. If he’s done this once he could do it again. if you haven’t watched Jordan Shanks expose friendlyjordie on Dutton yet it will confirm the shared intuition. Unsuited to lead
Defamation laws in Australia need immediate reform. It’s not surprising quite a few litigants are scumbag conservative politicians.
Self inflicted 🤣
Brave and powerful. Thanks for being excellent Shane. Hopefully you'll be able to heal now that this is over 🙏🙏🙏
About time keyboard hero’s think first !
Pro tip Don’t defame people
You are upset because someone threatened to sue you?
He’s like if a maggot got in the earthworm Jim suit
Sadly, it's the type of person politics attracts.
Behind that hard exterior is a soft mash.
did spud from his own pocket find out !! bet he used taxpayers money .
He is an evil , vindictive person !👺👹
I got a massive massive mega court matter to resolve with defamation obstruction of justice medical neglegance and malpractice with using abusing confusing bias lying governments mental health teams using coercive psychological mind control tactics chemically experimenting on me
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