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Old 20th April 2012 | 13:37
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Anthill
 
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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.
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