The settlement of the defamation action between Christian Porter and the ABC was clearly a win for Porter. I know, because I am the hero of a thousand mediations. Had I lived in ancient Greece they would have called me ‘the face that launched a thousand writs’. So, I can tell you that when a grudging statement is issued by one of the parties after the deal and they slip in words like ‘regret’, it means they lost.
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