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Dirty Politics case close to settlement Newsroom 2/03/2021 © Provided by Newsroom One of the final public battles over the Nicky Hager book Dirty Politics - a defamation trial over the defunct Whaleoil blog site - could be over within hours of its High Court opening today. Tim Murphy reports. A long-running defamation case against former Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater and PR man Carrick Graham, which stemmed from revelations in the Dirty Politics book on paid hit jobs on the site attacking medical researchers, could possibly settle out of court within hours. The lawsuit by academics Boyd Swinburn, Doug Sellman and Shane Bradbrook against Slater and Graham began in the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday morning. The court heard former National MP Katherine Rich and her Food and Grocery Council, who had previously been among those sued, had already reached a confidential settlement of the case against them - and Slater had decided simply to accept the judgment of the

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