Politics is damaged by relentless money raising

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:09pm, first published July 3 2015 - 5:14pm

Joe Hockey's lawsuit against Fairfax might serve as a perfect example of how Australian politics, and the Australian law of defamation, is becoming an international joke, not least because they have become sport for the rich. Law, and politics, is something to which leaners, takers and users can no longer aspire.

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