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With all these defamation lawsuits, what ever happened to free speech?

By Brendan Clift, Lecturer in Law, The University of Melbourne

In recent years, Australia has been dubbed the “defamation capital of the world”. High-profile legal stoushes in the headlines seem to back this up. How can we reconcile this with freedom of speech?

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