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Port Hits Back at Container Terminal Court Ruling
July 22, 2021
Judge Jayne Jagot doesn’t believe a container terminal would be viable for Newcastle. Image: MaxPixel
Port of Newcastle CEO Craig Carmody has criticised comments from a Federal Court judge who labeled plans for a local container terminal “fanciful” and “far-fetched”.
“Any suggestion that Port of Newcastle wouldn’t proceed to build the container terminal if the restrictions were lifted are baseless and misleading,” Mr Carmody said.
“Port of Newcastle maintains its real-world view that a container terminal is entirely viable – and necessary – at the Port.”
It comes after Justice Jayne Jagot published her written judgement on the ACCC’s case against NSW Ports, in which the consumer watchdog tried to argue privatisation deals between the state government and Port Botany and Port Kembla were anti-competitive and illegal.
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Federal Court set to hand down final ruling on Porter suppression orders
Federal Court set to hand down final ruling on Porter suppression orders
09 July 2021 • By Naomi Neilson Share
Major media organisations have argued it would be “exceptional” if the Federal Court ruled in favour of Christian Porter’s argument that three redacted sections from the ABC’s defence and his reply should not be made publicly available and that, if the court did so, it would go against the overarching principles of open justice.
Representing Nine and News Corporation, barrister Dauid Sibtain said there is no good reason to remove material from a court file that would “ordinarily be understood to be publicly available to members of the public” under overarching principles of open justice, particularly if the material is not argued to be scandalous or an abuse of power.
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.