Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
he repeated and expanded the comments he made in Parliament on TV.






heres the whole judgement if you want a read.
https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.a...19/2019fca1981

also, you can absolutely be fined and jailed for saying shit under Parliamentary privilege.

It aint the free for all you assume it to be.
To be charged with defamation there needs to be an element of truth in what you say about someone. If someone says something that's 100% fabricated / untrue it's almost impossible to prove because once puffery comes into play the wheels of any defamation case tend to fall off.