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Marshall_magic

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baselinepanther said:
I'd doubt it
an insinuation made in a public domain that damages ones reputation is defamation.

In defamation by implication, the statements made remain true but carry an insinuation that the information is false or harmful and false. Defamation by implication is possible both by an average person and a publication in print or online. ... It is important to seek a lawyer when harmed by implied defamation issues.
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Fair enough, however Tedesco would still need to prove his version of events is true. The issue with this story is that proving what happened is one persons word against another. I am sure Teddys mates will corroborate his story, and the young lady and her sister will have their friends corroborate their story.
 
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Marshall_magic said:
Fair enough, however Tedesco would still need to prove his version of events is true. The issue with this story is that proving what happened is one persons word against another. I am sure Teddys mates will corroborate his story, and the young lady and her sister will have their friends corroborate their story.
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the onus would be on fitzsimmons .. the defendant .. to prove that tedesco's version of events was unlikely to be true , that being what he said.
 
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greg said:
Bandana boy has reached a new level of low. Shameful.
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Yeah, like we know you're a left leaning ScoMo hating douchebag Fitz. But when it comes to turning up to a children's memorial after a tragic accident, does the office the representative holds matter? It's not like there was only 2 spare seats on the plane that ScoMo flew down there on and he strong-armed the GG and took the last 2 seats for him and his missus...

Sad merkin he is....
 
AlwaysGreen

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I'm all for a Republic but not if this bald dribbling f**kknuckle is head of the ARM.

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Bold new push to ditch the Queen

A new plan to remove the Queen as head of state has been mooted by the leading group in favour of Australia becoming a republic, sending the message that in the twilight of the 95-year-old’s reign, the British monarchy’s global reach is diminishing.
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AlwaysGreen said:
I'm all for a Republic but not if this bald dribbling f**kknuckle is head of the ARM.

www.news.com.au

Bold new push to ditch the Queen

A new plan to remove the Queen as head of state has been mooted by the leading group in favour of Australia becoming a republic, sending the message that in the twilight of the 95-year-old’s reign, the British monarchy’s global reach is diminishing.
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Agreed.

And I note the typo in the headline... "Bold"? I think we know what that second letter was meant to be....
 
The_Frog

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Foreign Legion said:
Rugby Union is the least pro trans sport on the planet, could you imagine the up roar if a trans player wanted to play for the wallabies?
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The issue here is blokes who've trans'd into shielas playing womens sport against shielas who were born that way and gaining an unfair advantage. I could not care less really, but it seems women who play sport do.
 
Foreign Legion

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You go girl
 
Get Rid of The Donkeys

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Allowing athletes who are biologically male to play against women is a recipe for disaster and hypocritical. On the one hand the woketivists say it's wrong for a man to to hit a woman, but they're okay with a man who identifies as "female" pummeling a woman into the ground in an MMA match. Women who've been forced to compete against men who identify as "female" have been seriously injured. It's wrong and I'm not going to turn a blind eye against it just because the Peter Fitzsimpletons of the world pretend to be outraged about sane people saying only women should be allowed to compete with women.

Would Peter Fitzsimpleton like it if a 6'3" bloke who identifies as "female" wanted to fight his daughter in an MMA match or play against her in a game of onionball?
 
Rhino_NQ

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Foreign Legion said:
www.news.com.au

FitzSimons shredded in epic slapdown

Two prominent “Peters” of the media industry have clashed on Twitter over the whereabouts of controversial TV host Alan Jones.
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For somone that does months of research for a book he wouldnt have not thought to do a quick check first. But mention lisa wilkinsons name as many times as possible in the article because who has a book of her own on the shelves!!
 
Desert Qlder

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Rhino_NQ said:
For somone that does months of research for a book he wouldnt have not thought to do a quick check first. But mention lisa wilkinsons name as many times as possible in the article because who has a book of her own on the shelves!!
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He pays people to do the research for his books.
 
Desert Qlder

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Rhino_NQ said:
And then classes himself as an "expert"?
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Peter FitzSimons’ new battle book spurs war of words​


After writing for the Sydney Morning Herald for almost 30 years, author, journalist and TV presenter Peter FitzSimons might have expected a friendlier review of his latest work from the paper.

But instead of bouquets, he got brickbats. And then some.

Noting that Victory at Villers-Bretonneux completed Mr FitzSimons’ trilogy on World War I, historian and critic Professor Peter Stanley could only manage: “Thank goodness”.

But if you think that was unkind, there was worse to come in his SMH review.

“FitzSimons’ style is that of a graphic novel without the pictures,” wrote Prof Stanley, adding: “(It’s) cartoon history by the kilogram.” Ouch.

And he still wasn’t done with Mr FitzSimons, author of 27 books and more than once the biggest-selling non-fiction author of the year in this country.

Prof Stanley, who the SMH called one of Australia’s foremost authorities on the Great War, was singularly unimpressed with the red-bandanaed author’s sales success, even comparing him to … Donald Trump.

“His [Mr FitzSimons’] popularity stems partly from the promotional advantages he enjoys with media outlets in all forms, but also because he is a sort of historical Trump – he understands and expresses [and probably shares] a simple patriotism that transcends the complexity of real life, and tells a good story regardless.”

Later, Prof Stanley observes: “He enjoys his status as Australia’s highest-earning non-fiction writer [though many passages are actually imagined] and historians who see the past less simplistically are left looking like sour-pusses. But as Fitzy writes: ‘Bingo. Done. Move on.'”

The New Daily attempted to contact Mr FitzSimons via his publisher, Penguin Books, which said it did not comment on book reviews.

Contacted in his Canberra office, Prof Stanley had no such reservations however, standing by his opinion.

“I wasn’t reading so much a formal history book as a book that had been written in a series of vignettes,” he told The New Daily.

Prof Stanley, who said he previously declined to review the book, acknowledged Mr FitzSimons’ skill for storytelling, but said his story was too simplistic.

“The story of Villers-Bretonneux doesn’t deserve 700 pages and I don’t think it should be told in the way he tells it,” he said.

“The fact that he writes about a group of men in a lorry, he goes, ‘they bumped down the cobblestones of France, bumpity bumpity bump’, to me that’s just ridiculously simplistic.

“And that partly explains his success because people relate to him as a story teller, they’re not particularly interested in the detail, they don’t really care where he got it from, they don’t care he doesn’t do his own research and he relies heavily on a team of research assistants.”

Prof Stanley also had something to say on Mr FitzSimons’ view of World War I.

“I’m not criticising it because it’s not the book I would have written. I’m criticising it because I think writing about the First World War in that way is misleading,” he said.

“I really don’t think he gets the Great War was a global tragedy, I think he thinks of it as a national triumph for Australia. And that’s the way he presents it.”

And in relation to his Trump comparison, Prof Stanley said: “Trump has a very simplistic view of good and bad, right and left, good and evil, and a very simplistic view of history, and I think Peter FitzSimons has got the same.

“He writes from a very, frankly, patriotic viewpoint and that patriotism was also evoked by Donald Trump. It struck me as a very apposite comparison.”

thenewdaily.com.au

Peter FitzSimons' new battle book spurs war of words | The New Daily

After writing for the SMH for almost thirty years, author and journalist Peter Fitzsimons, might have anticipated a kind review of his new work.
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Never buy a book on history by Peter Fitzsimons - he is an academic fraudster.
 
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