The Independent Sydney MP has been awarded $140,000 in damages after he won his defamation case against the former NSW One Nation leader over an offensive tweet.
, Federal Court Justice David O’Callaghan found Greenwich was defamed by the tweet but that Latham’s comments to theHe awarded Greenwich $100,000 in damages for non-economic loss and $40,000 in aggravated damages.
In a statement, Greenwich said the judgment “sends a clear message that you ... can’t just say whatever you like online without consequence”.“I wanted to stand up for myself, the LGBTQ community, and my family, to send a clear message that these Trump-style personalised attacks on political opponents have no place in Australian public life.”, a former federal Labor leader, as the party’s parliamentary leader.
Alex Greenwich, right, outside the Federal Court in Sydney with his husband Victor Hoeld during the trial in May.Latham tweeted in response: “Disgusting? How does that compare with ... because he engages in disgusting sexual activities”.Greenwich alleged Latham’s comments to theconveyed different defamatory meanings, including that he “is a disgusting human being who goes to schools to groom children to become homosexual”. O’Callaghan found those meanings were not conveyed.
Former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham outside the Federal Court in Sydney in May with barrister Kieran Smark, SC.O’Callaghan accepted Collins’ submission that the tweet could only have been an “honestly held opinion if Mr Latham, at the time he expressed it, had a proper factual foundation for believing that that’s what Mr Greenwich does in the bedroom. And he doesn’t, as Mr Smark correctly conceded”.
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