Leyonhjelm loses appeal bid, must pay $120,000 for defaming Hanson-Young
March 3 2021
New Daily
Former Senator David Leyonhjelm has lost his bid to overturn a ruling that he defamed Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, meaning he will have to pay $120,000 in compensation.   :)

The Federal Court found Mr Leyonhjelm defamed Ms Hanson-Young by suggesting she was a misandrist and a hypocrite in Parliament and in media interviews in 2018.

Ms Hanson-Young was awarded $120,000 in compensation, which she pledged would go to charity.   :)

The court had previously heard that at the conclusion of a Senate vote in June 2018, Mr Leyonhjelm told Senator Hanson-Young that she should “stop shagging men”.

In a subsequent media statement, Mr Leyonhjelm claimed he had made the comment in response to an interjection by Senator Hanson-Young along the lines of “all men are rapists”.


In the original court case, Justice Richard White found Senator Hanson-Young did not speak those words.

“Instead, it is likely that the respondent ‘heard’ that which he was predisposed to hear by reason of his pre-existing opinion of the applicant as someone who made ‘collectivist’ statements,” Justice White said.

“I have also accepted that the respondent was actuated by malice in that he published his claim concerning the applicant to a mass audience with the intention of publicly shaming her.”

The Full Court of the Federal Court dismissed Mr Leyonhjelm’s appeal against the verdict in a judgment handed down on Wednesday morning.

No suggestion about it - if she's a Greens person she will automatically be a misandrist and a hypocrite...

We had the Minister for Women touring up this way - going around telling all the young and privileged school girls they needed more women in politics.... Jesus - where was the Minister for Men doing the same with the downtrodden and misandrised boys?

42-26 Labor seats held by women........ Labor has more than their share - now the LNP wants to follow on and look good....

What ever happened to genuine merit and not this enforced quota nonsense?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Mar 4^th, 2021 at 11:34am:

No suggestion about it - if she's a Greens person she will automatically be a misandrist and a hypocrite... We had the Minister for Women touring up this way - going around telling all the young and privileged school girls they needed more women in politics.... Jesus - where was the Minister for Men doing the same with the downtrodden and misandrised boys? 42-26 Labor seats held by women........ Labor has more than their share - now the LNP wants to follow on and look good.... What ever happened to genuine merit and not this enforced quota nonsense?

https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/google/223/yawning-face_1f971.png

A Mens' Rights Activist speaking there.  Tsk, tsk. ::) ::)

Just a Truthsayer, Brian - you could try it some time.... I speak without fear or favour on what is clear imbalance and even injustice...

Where IS the Minister for Men?  Amazing how the Useful Idiots all buy into this nonsense that men had it all their own way for so long... go tell it to the Spartans who lie dead in the field....

Did SHY pay back the parliamentary expenses money she spent on private sightseeing?

If she hasn't then she should get nothing.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Mar 4^th, 2021 at 12:27pm:

Just a Truthsayer, Brian - you could try it some time.... I speak without fear or favour on what is clear imbalance and even injustice... Where IS the Minister for Men?  Amazing how the Useful Idiots all buy into this nonsense that men had it all their own way for so long... go tell it to the Spartans who lie dead in the field....

https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/120/google/223/yawning-face_1f971.png

A Mens' Rights Activist speaking there.  Tsk, tsk. ::) ::)