by Chris Merritt | Aug 25, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Freedom of Speech, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Thanks to the government of Bob Hawke, there can no longer be any debate about whether this country is entirely sovereign, legally independent and completely decolonised. This reality is difficult to reconcile with a plan by one of the nation’s leading law schools to...
by Chris Merritt | Jul 28, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Freedom of Speech, Media Article
There is really only one issue to look for next week when Walter Sofronoff gives the government of the ACT the report of his inquiry into the disastrous Brittany Higgins rape trial. Will anyone take the fall for the now abandoned rape prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann?...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 17, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Defamation, Freedom of Speech, Media Article
On February 7 The Australian Financial Review lost a defamation case. Some saw it as an attack on journalism. This seems to be how it was viewed by Michael Stutchbury, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief. He said the loss “highlights how Australia’s defamation laws pose a...
