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Australian defamation law is defined through a combination of common law and statutory law. Between 2014 and 2018, Australia earned the title of “world defamation capital”, recording 10 times as many libel claims as the UK on a per-capita basis. [1] Australia's common law is nationally uniform, and so principles and remedies for defamation ...
Certain subject-matter in Australia is subject to various forms of government censorship. These include matters of national security, judicial non-publication or suppression orders, defamation law, the federal Racial Discrimination Act 1975, film and literature (including video game) classification, and advertising restrictions.
Australian Capital Television v Commonwealth, [1] is a decision of the High Court of Australia. The case is notable in Australian Constitutional Law as one of the first cases within Australia's implied freedom of political communication jurisprudence.
Claims made in the film that some Aboriginal Australians in the outback were actually neanderthals were also deemed by the Australian government to be harmful to ongoing anthropological research. After its 1947 re-screening the film went missing. A full print of the film was later discovered and made commercially available on DVD in 2010.
Some common law jurisdictions distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. [26] The fundamental distinction between libel and slander lies solely in the form in which the defamatory matter is published. If the offending material is published in some fleeting ...
Whoopi Goldberg was publicly accused of defamation on Friday, two days after “The View” co-host suggested a bakery didn’t want to make her birthday desserts due to her left-leaning political ...
Kink turned homicide, a recurring theme throughout Law and Order: SVU’s many seasons, rears its head in this season 3 episode (which, to clarify, there are many safe ways to practice kinks, but ...
Scales of Justice is an Australian crime drama miniseries directed by Michael Jenkins. [1] It first screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1983. It was one of the most controversial Australian mini-series ever produced, examining corruption in all levels of law enforcement.