Lofty sentiment LHLisa vis-a-vis Stalin and North Korea, this is the
Act:
http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/Bi...tionB05Exp.pdf
read for yourself.
Some examples of
The Act in action:
Paper to make record payout to defamed cop - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
School principal wins $80k defamation payout - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Footy Show defamation payout to Western Bulldogs director Susan Alberti | Sam Newman
Publishers aghast at payout in Cleary case
By all means, express what you want
tempered by common sense. However, this does not give people a licence to impune a persons reputation.
If you say some thing that lowers a persons' standing, then you have no right to say it unless you can prove it to be true. This is why we have laws and a system that includes the concept of torts.