Day: November 12, 2025
Former Liberal staffer accused a reporter of stalking him in Tasmania, with her story’s headline describing him as a ‘despised party boy hiding at the end of the Earth’
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Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s bid to take out a restraining order against a journalist for alleged stalking has been dismissed.
Lehrmann had launched legal action in Hobart Magistrates Court against Karleigh Smith, a senior Daily Mail reporter based in NSW.
Michael Miller tells Senate misinformation inquiry platforming climate deniers and net zero critics part of ‘great democracy and healthy debate’
A senior News Corp Australia executive has defended the company’s platforming of climate science deniers, saying its news outlets were not part of a “denial machine” spreading misinformation.
News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, told a Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformation there was no coordination across the organisation’s news outlets to feature voices sceptical of climate action or Australia’s current goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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