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Australian independent publisher’s application to strike out parts of Murdoch’s reply also failed ahead of defamation trial

The federal government must get rid of any loopholes in the Medicare system and then make it easier for GPs to navigate, readers say.

The prime minister should follow John Howard’s example and declare his commitment to keep them as a non-core promise, readers say.

Lachlan Murdoch says independent Australian publisher can’t rely on defence after it connected media baron to evidence at hearing into January 6 riots

Murdoch’s barrister moves to strike out parts of Crikey’s defence calling it ‘embarrassing and irrelevant’. Plus: Speers moves to the capital

In Sydney’s Federal Court this morning, the first hearing went ahead for Lachlan Murdoch’s suit against Crikey’s publisher Private Media.

Lachlan Murdoch's lawyers say the company which owns Crikey is “directing ridicule and hatred” towards him as a date is set for his defamation trial.

Lachlan Murdoch is suing Crikey’s publisher Private Media, political editor Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor-in-chief Peter Fray for defamation.

Private Media says in court documents that ‘no one’ would read the words of the Crikey article literally

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has told world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York that the world is ‘gridlocked in a colossal global dysfunction’, and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong plans to meet her Chinese counterpart at the assembly — it would be their second meeting in two…

The Albanese government has committed to legislate multi-employer bargaining, and house prices across the country are dropping at the fastest rate since the ’80s.