Peter Dutton asks high court for permission to appeal defamation case loss to Shane Bazzi
reporting comments by Dutton that some female refugees in offshore detention were “trying it on” by making claims they had been raped and needed to travel to Australia to have abortions.
The court concluded: “It is not sufficient that the tweet was offensive and derogatory. Mr Dutton had the onus to establish, on the balance of probabilities, that the reader reasonably would have understood that the tweet conveyed the imputation that he asserted it conveyed.” They questioned what the ordinary, reasonable reader could be presumed to understand from a tweet containing a “truncated excerpt of a separate publication”.
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