Erin Molan awarded $150,000 damages after winning defamation case against Daily Mail Australia
by Amanda Meade from World news | The Guardian on (#631NT)
Sky News broadcaster said an article and two tweets defamed her by wrongly portraying her as mocking Polynesian names
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The Sky News broadcaster Erin Molan has been awarded $150,000 after winning a defamation suit against Daily Mail Australia over an article and two tweets that accused her of appearing to mock Polynesian names in a radio broadcast.
Molan told the federal court last year she did not think she was mocking Polynesian names when she said hooka looka mooka hooka fooka" on 2GB in 2020.
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