£1000 LIBEL AWARD
Country Party Leader Sues Labour Paper MR. FADDEN SUCCEEDS Rec. 12.30. BRISBANE, this day. .. The leader of the Australian Country party, and former Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr. A. W. Fadden was awarded £1000 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 £5000 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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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 294, 11 December 1943, Page 5
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