Some of Australia’s most esteemed defamation lawyers have called on the federal government to scrap its controversial “anti-trolling” bill, saying it has “significant defects” and would likely leave victims of online abuse without any recourse. A Senate inquiry is currently scrutinising the Coalition’s Anti-Trolling Bill, which creates a “new novel framework to allow Australians to…

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