Christian Porter moves to strike out major sections of ABC’s defamation defence

The former attorney general is suing the public broadcaster and is trying to stop parts of its defence being made public

Christian Porter has moved to strike out major sections of the ABC's defence of his defamation claim, and prevent them from becoming public, accusing the public broadcaster of abusing the court process.

The ABC filed its defence on Tuesday, prompting an interlocutory application from Porter for an order to make confidential and strike out sections of the document on the basis they contain material that is either scandalous, frivolous, vexatious, evasive or ambiguous or are otherwise an abuse of the process of the court".