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1. The Treasurer has won a defamation lawsuit.
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has been awarded $200,000 in damages for being defamed by Fairfax Media last year.
The courts found that the Treasurer was defamed by a poster distributed by the Sydney Morning Herald and two Tweets sent by The Age containing the phrase “Treasurer for Sale.”
The poster earned Mr Hockey $120,000, and the Tweets an extra $80,000 in total.
Fairfax reports Mr Hockey’s victory was only partial, as the courts also found articles published on May 5, 2014 were not defamatory.
2. A woman has died in an horrific bungee jumping accident.
A woman has died and her boyfriend is critically injured after a bungee-jumping accident.
The 28-year-old woman and her partner were doing a tandem jump attached to a crane in the French town of Audincthun.
Top Comments
Joe Hockey sues a newspaper for defamation? Poor little bunny. I don't recall Julie Gillard suing the Murdoch media during those relentless years they obliterated her character, though I can just imagine the headlines if she had.
Well, there's another 200k toward the mortgage on Mr Hockey's Canberra house that the taxpayer won't be hit for. Too easy when you have a good job that pays well, I reckon.
Well firstly what the Murdoch media said would have had to be false......