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Judge retires to consider decision in landmark Dylan Voller defamation caseMr Voller is suing three media companies over comments made by third parties on Facebook, a first for Australian courts.
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Doctor compares situation on Nauru to crimes of the Holocaust | Sky News AustraliaThe Australian Medical Association (AMA)’s Dr Paul Bauert has compared the crimes of the Holocaust to the current situation on Nauru. \n\nCEO of Executive Council of Australian Jewry Peter Wertheim says that this ‘appalling misrepresentation’ and ‘dumbing down’ of history is ‘extremely cruel’ to the few Holocaust survivors left and desensitises the general public to what people went through in concentration camps.\n\nThe organisation has lodged a formal complaint with the AMA, and Mr Wertheim says that Dr Bauert’s apology on Twitter was inadequate.
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ASIC should be given a chance to recover reputation: Former ACCC chairman | Sky News AustraliaGraeme Samuel, the former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, says the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have the chance to recover its reputation in the wake of the banking royal commission.\n\nFinancial regulators APRA and ASIC will be subject to reviews by an independent inquiry in three years’ time after Commissioner Kenneth Hayne delivered a scathing assessment of their conduct in his inquiry.\n\nCommissioner Hayne accused the regulators of fostering an ‘ineffective enforcement culture’, which inhibited its ability to do its job.\n\nMr Samuel says ASIC's new chair James Shipton should be given enough time to change the culture within the organisation.\n\nHe told Sky News Mr Shipton understands that regulators need to be ‘respected but not necessarily liked.’\n\n\n
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Dastyari reveals how he was 'courted' by Chinese billionaire | Sky News AustraliaFormer Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has revealed the lengths Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo would go to, to court Australian politicians.\n\nMr Dastyari resigned from his seat in parliament following revelations of his relationship with the Chinese national. \n\nHe claims Mr Huang would gift politicians millions in donations and treat them to expensive nights out. \n\nThe Communist Party-aligned Huang Xiangmo, who has donated money to both Labor and the Coalition, has been living in Sydney with his wife and children since 2011 but has now been stripped of his permanent Australian residency and refused entry into the country.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Dastyari reveals how he was 'courted' by Chinese billionaire | Sky News AustraliaFormer Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has revealed the lengths Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo would go to, to court Australian politicians.\n\nMr Dastyari resigned from his seat in parliament following revelations of his relationship with the Chinese national. \n\nHe claims Mr Huang would gift politicians millions in donations and treat them to expensive nights out. \n\nThe Communist Party-aligned businessman, who has donated money to both Labor and the Coalition, has been living in Sydney with his wife and children since 2011 but has now been stripped of his permanent Australian residency and refused entry into the country.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Amnesty International slams Thai govt over detained footballer | Sky News AustraliaHuman rights group Amnesty International has accused the Thai government of shifting the blame for the detention of an Australian based refugee footballer. \n\nHakeem al-Araibi was detained at the request of Bahrain when he arrived in Thailand for his honeymoon.\n\nThe Thai government claims it only arrested the athlete after an Interpol Red Notice alert was issued by Canberra.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has now written twice to his Thai counterpart - calling for Mr al-Araibi to be freed. \n\nMr al-Araibi is likely to remain behind bars until at least August. \n\n\n
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Labor’s plan to ‘weaken our border laws’ is a ‘deadly mistake’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Andrew Bolt says Labor is going to make a ‘deadly mistake’ with Australia’s border protection, in its ‘plan to weaken’ border laws. \n\nIf the Labor-backed bill is passed to change how medical transfers for asylum seekers in offshore detention are processed, Mr Bolt says the immigration minister cannot stop activist doctors from flying in rapists, killers, thieves, paedophiles.\n\nThe Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has reportedly warned against the proposed changes, claiming it could undermine the nation's border security.
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