{"id":7189,"date":"2021-06-13T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=7189"},"modified":"2021-06-13T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T04:48:08","slug":"defamation-nation-why-are-australian-politicians-so-quick-to-sue-defamation-law-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/defamation-nation-why-are-australian-politicians-so-quick-to-sue-defamation-law-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Defamation nation: why are Australian politicians so quick to sue? | Defamation law | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not exactly new to the nation\u2019s political culture but the litigation business is booming \u2013 and social media has added fuel to the fire<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2021\/jun\/13\/defamation-nation-why-are-australian-politicians-so-quick-to-sue\">Defamation nation: why are Australian politicians so quick to sue?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because they are scared but don&#8217;t think you have enough to actually prove your point. Because they want to make everyone else who has knowledge of their corruption to be scared into silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not exactly new to the nation\u2019s political culture but the litigation business is booming \u2013 and social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,434,468,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-freespeech","category-inequity","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7190,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7189\/revisions\/7190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}