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Sky News has paid $40,000 plus legal costs to avoid a defamation suit being filed against it by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young after the broadcaster wrongly aired claims she involved her young niece in a dangerous environmental protest.
The money will be donated to the Australian Youth Climate Commission in the name of the senator’s 7-year-old niece.
Senator Hanson-Young will donate the $40,000 settlement from Sky News to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in her niece’s name.
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In April, the News Corp-owned Sky News broadcast an interview with Liberal Senator Jonathon Duniam, the Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries, in which host Rita Panahi alleged anti-logging protesters had been “slammed for using a young child to help block heavy machinery”.
Sky News pays $40,000 plus costs to avoid Hanson-Young defamation suit
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The Great Barrier Reef Wars
The Great Barrier Reef Wars
To float over such an aqueous body is to find a majestic creature unparalleled in beauty and expanse, stretching at 2,300km. There are other stunning formations on the planet, but the Great Barrier Reef has such dimension, form and cocksure brilliance as to make others shrink, not so much because of beauty as due to sheer scale and ecological variety.
But the Reef’s health record has been patchy. Each year brings a series of negative assessments about the patient. Its ticker is having palpitations; its central mineral supports in the form of coral life is being bleached. Water quality is being affected. The crown-of-thorns starfish, richly stimulated by nutrients from runoffs, has grown in number to savage the unmoving coral with relish.