Pauline Hanson appeals $250,000 defamation payout to former colleague Brian Burston
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6BRBK)
Lawyer for One Nation leader tells court there is proof he sexually harassed his former staff member, but Burston denies all claims
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A judge in Pauline Hanson's defamation appeal hearing says he has great difficulty" in seeing how Brian Burston could not have sexually abused his young staffer.
The One Nation leader is appealing against a court order to pay her former colleague $250,000 after she was found to have defamed him last year through seriously damaging" comments made on Nine's Today Show in March 2019.
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