Aust High Commissioner to Malaysia attacks Malaysia's judiciary over MKini decision despite similar decisions by Australian courts

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

The Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia, Andrew Goledzinowski, has joined in the condemnation of Malaysia's judiciary that has followed the decision in the Malaysiakini contempt matter. 

He does so despite the position in Australia, where  Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook , and where  Google is considered a publisher that can be sued for defamatory material that appears in its searches. 

And, as previously reported on this blog, senior Australian judges feel that Najib Razak's blocking of websites reporting the1 MDB theft was due to "defamatory" publications.

That  is not all.  Senior judicial officers in Australia have in recent years decided to undermine a decision of the NSW Supreme Court  against Berjaya's Vincent Tan.

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