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Investigative journalists rely heavily on their ability to attract and retain the trust of their anonymous sources.

Google was ordered to pay damages for defamation, finding that the search engine was a publisher of the search results.

In Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Reed International Books Australia Pty Limited [2010] FCA 984, the Federal Court held that newspaper headlines are not substantial enough to qualify for copyright protection and that even if they are, their reproduction by news aggregating services, including where the reproduction is part of a commercial enterprise in competition with the original publisher, would be protected under the defence of fair dealing.

Owners of social media pages would be liable, as publisher, for defamatory comments made on their public Facebook pages.

The US is attempting to have the Australian journalist and publisher extradited, under the UK-US Extradition Treaty.

In Australia, if news organizations ignore a court suppression order, they could be fined for 'contempt of court'.

Most Australian jurisdictions impose restrictions on both the exhibition and sale of pornographic material.

The WikiLeaks founder has spent another year in prolonged isolation waiting.

Journalists' privilege does real work in bolstering the protections that journalists so often give to their sources.

The line-up of renowned Australian journalists on the stage at the Julian Assange rally at Martin Place was impressive.

The risk of having a potentially aggrieved party threatening legal action often places an onerous burden on a publisher.

The activities of an unauthorised stranger using drone technology could adversely impact the funding models for major sports.

The soldier lost a defamation claim against the media for a string of articles which accused him of war crimes.

Commonwealth orders can suppress publishing the identification of this former intelligence official or the charges.

Reliable surveys have indicated that the number of No Religionists in Australia is more like 40 percent, not 30 percent.

A non-publication order is a Court order that the case, or the names of the parties, are not to be published.

The Defamation Amendment Act 2020 (NSW) introduced three significant reforms to the defamation laws in New South Wales.