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Miranda Devine apologises for tweets ahead of defamation settlement – Sydney Morning Herald
News Corp had argued it was not liable for its star columnist’s tweets about nine-year-old Indigenous boy Quaden Bayles.
“I now know those comments were hurtful and untrue. I sincerely apologise to the Bayles for those comments.”
News Corp subsidiary Nationwide News, the publisher of the Telegraph, was also named as a defendant to the defamation suit but had taken the extraordinary step of briefing a lawyer only to appear in court on its behalf.
Ashurst partner Robert Todd, acting solely for Nationwide News and not Devine, told the court in August the company’s position was that its star columnist’s tweets from …
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