And what does Porter pay? Where are those reports?
Also shouldn’t the headline be “Australians to pay $780,000 in costs for Porter defamation case against tax payer owned ABC”?
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Porter pay? Lol. We paid.
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Wait a minute…
Weren’t the ABC claiming that there was no settlement? Why are they then paying anything?
It’s not a settlement. It’s mediation + legal costs
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Poor Porter, had to meet own legal costs apart from mediation. He is just on a Cabinet Minister’s salary, and Commonwealth not funding him - unlike Milligan, whose costs were ABC funded ( as she had ABC cover and clearance for her reporting).
If only Porter had sought Gov approval for his defamation action!
Even the ABCs own article uses the term ‘settlement’ which is stupid.
No damages were paid following the settlement of the case, but ABC managing director David Anderson said the public broadcaster had agreed to cover Mr Porter’s mediation costs of about $100,000.
Appearing before a Senate Estimates committee, Mr Anderson revealed the total cost of defending and settling the case had so far cost the ABC about $780,000.
“The total so far, both paid as well as accrued, is approximately $680,000, and that’s before the payment of $100,000,” he told senators.
“So costs incurred would be about $780,000 to the ABC.”
Also how does a meeting cost $100k?
I still don’t understand.
If Porter withdrew, why is the ABC paying legal costs?
Isn’t that ABC legal costs, porters would be another matter
I don’t have access to the Article, so I can’t see.
It’s just odd, that ABC were claiming that Porter withdrew, and that they were willing to fight.
Then this week, apparently they’re paying Porter’s legal costs.
Basically they paid 100,000/2=50,000 rather than paying 1,000,000+ to go to trial… and still kept the articles up etc.
EDIT: yes, they could have gambled on the judge telling Porter to pay all costs. I don’t know what the chance of that was.
Because as DJR posted above, it is better to pay that much in mediation fees and costs, rather than spend probably 5-10x that amount on legal fees during an actual trial, regardless of what the outcome is.
Lawyers win, the mediation company wins, taxpayers lose
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IIRC, Porter suggested mediation as the alternative to trial, possibly contingent on costs being met - there would be a heap of legal preparation before actual meeting and excruating drafting negotiatons on agreed mediation outcome
Who would pay for the mediator?
Labor does hundreds of Facebook ads every day. How many do you see ?
Labor has hundreds of Facebook pages, Groups and blogs. How many are you on ?
Do you reckon Facebook and Twitter etc determine election results ? I have no idea what they actually do in this respect; all I see on Facebook is either friends chatting away or nutters hating everyone.
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It’s your fault you stupid plebs, we warned you, nah nah nah! FMD
Hmm, so on one hand you whine that the light on the hill is extinguished and then when Labor has a rip back at this government, your bottom lip quivers.
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What do they think about Porter et al?
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Saw my old man share an image on FB alleging that Andrews had slept with Luke Sayers’ daughter at Fox’s house.
Vic Lib/Nats are a special breed of stupid
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The one with Downs syndrome or the younger ones ?
Your old man needs a good talking too !!
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