Mark Latham will defend a defamation claim by arguing his wrong assumption that a Sydney university student had plotted to kill senior federal MPs and blow up the Sydney Opera House was his"honest opinion" and caused little harm.
But the charge was later dropped and his colleague, Arsalan Khawaja, was accused of trying to frame Mr Nizamdeen.Facebook Mr Kerr said the tweets on August 31 were concurrent with a series of news reports mentioning the police allegations made against Mr Nizamdeen and statements made by Senator Fraser Anning.
Mark Latham is being sued for defamation over tweets about a Sydney student charged with a terror offence.A second, posted 20 minutes later, referred to a UNSW tweet about where to start on the university's open day.Shortly after the defamation claim was filed with the court and Latham's election to the NSW parliament was all but confirmed, the tweets were deleted.
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