DAMAGES AWARDED
TO POLITICAL LEADER. BRISBANE, Dec. 11. The leader of the Australian Country Party and the former Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. A. W. Fadden) was awarded £lOOO damages in a libel action against the president of the Australian Labour Party (Mr. Fallon) and the Australian Workers’ Union newspaper, “The Worker.” Mr Fadden claimed £5OOO damages. 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. 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 Britons on a Queensland sugar farm of which he was managing director.
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Grey River Argus, 13 December 1943, Page 6
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