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That is good news. From your: "Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation suit against Australian outlet after Fox News’ Dominion settlement

Story by Maroosha Muzaffar • Yesterday 11:56 PM

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Private Media was attempting to use testimony by Mr Murdoch and his father Rupert in the Dominion Voting Systems’ US lawsuit as part of its defence to the Australian case, according to local media reports.

“This was shaping up to be the first major test case of the new public interest defence in Australian defamation law,” David Rolph, a University of Sydney professor, told the Sydney Morning Herald. “Now we’ll have to await another suitable vehicle.”

Mr Rolph said “defamation litigation doesn’t exist in a vacuum” and that “the revelations in the US proceedings provided the backdrop which made it difficult to litigate the Australian proceedings”.

Other experts also said that after settling the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit in the US, it made sense for Mr Murdoch to “want to see this case go away, too”.

Dr Michael Douglas, a senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia Law School, told the newspaper that if the Australian case had continued, some of the evidence before the US court may have been aired again “in all its gory detail, potentially including thorough cross-examination of Lachlan Murdoch himself”.

Fox News declared last week that it was “pleased” to have paid out the vast sum to Dominion Voting Systems.

The network avoided a gruelling six-week courtroom examination of its journalistic practices.

“We acknowledge the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false,” Fox said in its statement."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/lachlan-murdoch-lawsuit-crikey-dominion-settlement-fox-news-b2324121.html

The Murdoch back-down new to me. Thanks.