Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, Bolt lost the case because his articles, according to Justice Bromberg:

… contained erroneous facts, distortions of the truth and inflammatory and provocative language.

Justice Bromberg also found that Bolt's articles were

… reasonably likely to have an intimidatory effect on some fair-skinned Aboriginal people and in particular young Aboriginal persons or others with vulnerability in relation to their identity.

I think the latter part of the judgement was one of the points that Senator Dodson was making in his excellent contribution to this debate earlier, and that is that those of us who are debating this issue in the parliament need to think about how it might feel to be in other people's shoes. I am a 50-something white man of some means and from an Anglo-Celtic background, and it is very difficult for us—