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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.
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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.