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Sky News has paid $40,000 plus legal costs to avoid a defamation suit being filed against it by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young after the broadcaster wrongly aired claims she involved her young niece in a dangerous environmental protest.
The money will be donated to the Australian Youth Climate Commission in the name of the senator’s 7-year-old niece.
Senator Hanson-Young will donate the $40,000 settlement from Sky News to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in her niece’s name.
Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
In April, the News Corp-owned Sky News broadcast an interview with Liberal Senator Jonathon Duniam, the Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, in which host Rita Panahi alleged anti-logging protesters had been “slammed for using a young child to help block heavy machinery”.
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