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Greens leader threatens legal action against attorney-general over 'defamatory' comments (www.sbs.com.au)

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Adam Bandt said comments Mark Dreyfus made about the Greens and pro-Palestinian activists were "utterly unfounded".

Greens leader Adam Bandt says his lawyers have written to Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus over "defamatory" comments.

Dreyfus made the comments about pro-Palestinian protests in an interview with the ABC.

It comes after the government and Opposition condemned the protests and accused the Greens of inflaming tensions.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Doubt it'll go to court, he'll probably just make a public pseudo-apology and that'll be that. But if it did go to court, I imagine the defence will argue that by not explicitly condoning, and in some instances fully supporting the protests, they were "encouraging" any criminal damage that may have occurred. I would hope that argument wouldn't work, but a lot has happened in the last six months that I previously would have hoped would never happen so who knows at this point.