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Previously:

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/fede ... 50kmj.html

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/l ... ssment-and

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/ ... 50kzu.html


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'Salacious': Judge rebukes BuzzFeed in Emma Husar defamation case

https://www.theage.com.au/national/sala ... 50nm4.html

"The Federal Court judge presiding over Labor MP Emma Husar's defamation action against online publisher BuzzFeed has described the publication at the heart of the battle as "salacious" and said it would be open to readers to conclude the article suggested she was a "slut" who boasted about casual sexual encounters.
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Barrister Tim Senior, appearing for BuzzFeed, argued on Friday that "the word slut is imprecise" and the imputation as pleaded by Ms Husar's legal team should be struck out.

Mr Senior said BuzzFeed had not used the word "slut" in the article and the allegation it had made was not that Ms Husar had indiscriminate sex but that she had allegedly discussed in the office who she had slept with or would like to sleep with, with reference to MPs or staff members.
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But Justice Rares noted the article reported in its first paragraph that Ms Husar "bragged about who she was having sex with ... according to allegations".

He said the "fairly salacious" article "seems eminently capable" of conveying to readers the imputation as pleaded by Ms Husar's lawyers.
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"The fact that it may be difficult to justify [the imputation] only goes to show that you might have thought about what you did before you published it," Justice Rares told BuzzFeed's barrister.

Ms Husar's barrister, prominent defamation silk Sandy Dawson, SC, successfully applied for BuzzFeed to pay the Labor MP's costs of the hearing on Friday.
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Mr Whelan said the leaking of the allegations against Ms Husar had been "reprehensible".
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Many companies in Australia cannot sue for defamation, but the restriction does not apply to those which employ fewer than 10 people and are not related to any other company."
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The Washington Post ponders whether children should sit on Santa's knee amid the #metoo movement:

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How would Siri know when to answer "Hey Siri" unless it is listening in to everything you say?
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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damn common sense right there, unless your a pedophile
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Are you still located in England?
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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Department store Santa: And how old are you little girl?
Girl: I'm 16
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^ If that's true, then the Telegraph's legal team, whose past actions have seemed very strange, have a lot of worries on their hands.
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