01:35 EDT, 9 July 2021
Christian Porter is fighting to keep secret a 27-page defamation defence document filed by the ABC in their court case, which settled in May
Christian Porter would be getting special treatment if a judge went along with his plan to keep a 27 page ABC defamation defence document secret, a court has heard.
Media organisations fought the senior Morrison Government minister over the fate of heavily redacted paperwork tendered by the ABC in their legal fight in court on Friday.
The former attorney-general wants the ABC document to be permanently removed from the Federal Court s file, his lawyer Bret Walker SC said.