Published: November 21, 2019
Justice Peter Applegarth says report defamed family and was ‘recklessly indifferent’ to the truth
A wealthy Queensland family “extraordinarily” defamed by a reckless Nine Network report about the fatal Grantham floods in 2011 has been awarded a $3.6m damages payout.
Toowoomba’s Wagner brothers were defamed by a 60 Minutes report from May 2015 that incorrectly insinuated they were responsible for the destruction of the town and deaths of 12 people, a Brisbane supreme court jury found.
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