DAMAGES FOR LIBEL
AWARDED TO MR A. W. FADDEN FORMER FEDERAL PREMIER ACTION AGAINST LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENT (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The Leader of the Australian Country Party and former Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr A. W. Fadden, was awarded £l,OOO damages in a libel action against the Federal Australian Labour Party president, Mr Fallon, and the Australian Workers’ Union newspaper the “Worker.” The jury held that a statement by Mr Fallon in the “Worker” had been defamatory and had not been published in good faith or in rebuttal of Mr Fadden’s alleged defamation of the Australian Workers’’ Union. Mr Fadden claimed £5,000 damages. The alleged libellous statement charged that while Mr Fadden was Prime Minister of Australia, in 1941, he employed enemy aliens, to the absolute exclusion of Britishers, on a Queensland sugar farm of which he was managing director.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 4
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149DAMAGES FOR LIBEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 4
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