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Chau Chak Wing's $590,000 defamation win shows investigative journalism is risky business

  • Written by Michael Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia
Chau Chak Wing's $590,000 defamation win shows investigative journalism is risky businessChris Pavlich/AAP

What are the biggest domestic news stories you remember from the last few years?

Apart from all the natural disasters, I think of stories about George Pell, the coverage that led to the Banking Royal Commission, the SAS in Afghanistan and because I am a law nerd, the reporting on former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon.

Many of...

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