Lawyers for the media outlets have a copy of the ABC’s full written defence to Christian Porter’s defamation claim, but most of the document is not in the public domain.
ABC paid Christian Porter s lawyer $100,000 in mediation costs, parliament told
Confidential sum revealed at a Senate Estimates hearing on Monday morning
Comes amid a public relations war after he dropped his defamation case
Porter was suing over an article detailing a rape allegation which he denied
The ABC refused to take the article down but appnded an editor s note
The ABC forked out $680,000 in taxpayer funds defending Christian Porter s defamation lawsuit and then paid his lawyer a further $100,000 in mediation costs.
Christian Porter will fight to have a scandalous defence document submitted to a court by the ABC in his defamation battle to be kept secret, a court has heard.