The Bolt Report on Channel 10 Sunday at 10am and 4pm

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Dont forget to watch The Bolt Report every Sunday  on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm

Join Andrew Bolt, one of Australia's most read, most topical newspaper columnists, as he addresses today's political and social issues through opinion commentary, panel discussion and interviews.

This week

Abbott’s deficit tax. Sacrifice or suicide?

My guest: Amanda Vanstone, former Howard Government minister and member of the Commission of Audit.

The panel: Michael Kroger and Cassandra Wilkinson.

NewsWatch: Rowan Dean.

So much to discuss: destroying the handout mentality, the deficit tax and growing corruptions scandals. Plus:  the menace of Clive Palmer’s money and the arrest of a man who quoted Churchill in public.

And this: is Labor’s what-budget-crisis? strategy clever politics or a reckless betrayal of the national interest?

Your Say and more.

The videos appear here.

[cherry*135]

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@idlewhile wrote:

The sign of a good investigative and courageous journalist is the defamation suits brought against them. This would apply to SMH/Fairfax journalists as well I hope.

If we didn't have the journalists who are brave enough to put it out there, and the papers who  print what is the truth, we would be capture to all the leftist disgraces who purport to call themselves.......... journalist.

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The fact that a person wins a defamation case shows the journalist/newspaper did not publish THE TRUTH. ( e.g. lawyer George Newhouse)

According to your comments above: Joe Hockey ' Treasurer for Sale'' is acceptable because it is the truth.

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@idlewhile wrote:

Before an article is published the editor has it legalled and checked.

Lets hope we are not going to go down the path of other countries which have been silenced by spurious law suits to shut down brave journalists and even braver newspapers. 

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Obviously they let some slip through  that are open to defamation complaints/sueing and complaints to the Press Council.... and some of those complaints are upheld.

[cherry*135]

Andrew Bolt

2002

In 2002, magistrate Jelena Popovic was awarded $246,000 damages for defamation after suing Bolt and the publishers of the Herald Sun over a 13 December 2000 column in which he claimed that she had "hugged two drug traffickers she let walk free". Popovic stated that she had in fact shaken their hands to congratulate them on having completed a rehabilitation program. The jury found that what Bolt wrote was untrue, unfair and inaccurate, but cleared him of malice.

Bolt emerged from the Supreme Court after the jury verdict, stating that his column had been accurate and that the mixed verdict was a victory for free speech. His statement outside the court was harshly criticised by Supreme Court judge Bernard Bongiorno, who later overturned the jury's decision, ruling that Bolt had not acted reasonably because he did not seek a response from Popovic before writing the article and, in evidence given during the trial, showed he did not care whether or not the article was defamatory. Justice Bongiorno ordered that Ms Popovic be awarded $210,000 in aggravated compensatory damages, $25,000 in punitive damages and $11,500 interest. The judge stated that the damages awarded were significantly influenced by Bolt's "disingenuous" comments he had made outside court and the Herald Sun's reporting of the jury's decision.

The Court of Appeal later reversed the $25,000 punitive damages, though it upheld the defamation finding, describing Bolt's conduct as "at worst, dishonest and misleading and at best, grossly careless".

2010/11

In September 2010, nine individuals commenced legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Bolt and the Herald Sun over two posts on Bolt's blog. The nine sued over posts titled "It's so hip to be black", "White is the New Black" and "White Fellas in the Black". The articles suggested it was fashionable for "fair-skinned people" of diverse ancestry to choose Aboriginal racial identity for the purposes of political and career clout.

HERALD Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has lost an action brought in the Federal Court in which the columnist was accused of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act.

Bolt was found to have contravened Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

April 2015

Human rights lawyer George Newhouse has won his defamation case against controversial News Corp blogger Andrew Bolt.

In the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday, Justice Lucy McCallum ordered a verdict for Mr Newhouse and said News Corp was to pay his legal costs.

The terms of the order - agreed to by both parties - requires the article to be taken down from News Corp's various online sites. Other terms of the settlement are confidential.

Mr Newhouse sued over an opinion piece written by Bolt on July 10, 2014, which carried the headline "Fearmongers' hateful fraud" in The Herald Sun. It was also published in The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail and The Advertiser.

[icyfroth]

Don't forget to tune. Halal will be discussed amongst other topics.

[cherry*135]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Don't forget to tune. Halal will be discussed amongst other topics.

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Don't forget to tune out.?

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Don't forget to tune. Halal will be discussed amongst other topics.

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Don't forget to tune out.?

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Your choice, Ammy. 

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Don't forget to tune. Halal will be discussed amongst other topics.

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Don't forget to tune out.?

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Your choice, Ammy. 

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Actually I think you would've enjoyed watching Ms Gillard's former staffer Sean Kelly shout Andrew Bolt down in the debate about muslim immigration

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[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Don't forget to tune. Halal will be discussed amongst other topics.

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Don't forget to tune out.?

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Your choice, Ammy. 

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Actually I think you would've enjoyed watching Ms Gillard's former staffer Sean Kelly shout Andrew Bolt down in the debate about muslim immigration

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I also think you'd find it interesting that Sean Kelly made a comparison between the migration ratio of New Zealanders to that of  Muslims.

And that, conceivably, we could be just as worried about a bomb threat from the Kiwis.

Would that be right, d'you reckon?

[cherry*135]

I could not watch Andrew Bolt on TV....

Reading the first few sentences of his blog posts is too much...

I think you (totally) missed the 'point' of Sean Kelly's comparison.

Which is very strange from someone who posts things like -- 'the Muslim's will be taking over the Western world soon'.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

I could not watch Andrew Bolt on TV....

Reading the first few sentences of his blog posts is too much...

I think you (totally) missed the 'point' of Sean Kelly's comparison.

Which is very strange from someone who posts things like -- 'the Muslim's will be taking over the Western world soon'.

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So you read the transcript?