The Null Device

Freedom of Speech: A former One Nation candidate is suing a radio broadcaster for defamation after the broadcaster described the One Nation party's faithful as "loonies" and "whackos". Douglas Cecil Hesse, who stood for election as a member of the reactionary-right One Nation party in 1998, is claiming $40,000 damages for anxiety, upset and ill health. This is possible because this is Australia, where libel/defamation laws designed centuries ago to protect the British aristocracy from common riffraff with printing presses are still in force.

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