Published: August 30, 2018
Judge orders former ALP leader to ‘start from scratch’ in trying to justify comments about Faruqi in a video on the Outsiders program
Mark Latham’s defence against a defamation action brought by ABC online editor Osman Faruqi has been struck out in its entirety by a federal court judge, who labelled the 76-page document “extraordinary”.
Faruqi, a former editor of pop culture site Junkee and a former Greens candidate, launched his libel action last year after the former leader of the Labor party accused him of “aiding and abetting Islamic terrorism” and fostering “anti-white racism in Australia”.
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