"We don't have free speech in Australia. That's not part of our constitution, it's part of the American constitution, and because of that our defamation laws are such that Ben Robert Smith can sue... and it just drags all this stuff through the courts, and millions of dollars are spent, and everyone comes out of it badly."
"[Current Affairs TV shows] still rate really well in Australia. They do hard reporting (but) they have a kind of tabloid magazine format. Morally, they go beyond the pale a lot of times. There's trickery involved in getting stories. They'll pay money, you know, as we've seen with Bruce Lehrmann. But ethically, they fall short at times and the networks get sued."
#NathanJolly, Deputy Editor, media news website Mumbrella