A tweet by former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham targeting independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich over his sexuality was “offensive and crass and vulgar” but it did not defame him, Latham’s barrister has told the Federal Court.after the independent NSW upper house MP posted and later deleted a highly graphic and offensive comment on Twitter, now X, on March 30. Greenwich described the tweet as “defamatory and homophobic”.
This was not to deny evidence of the hurt and offence caused to Greenwich by the tweet, Smark said, but to “reflect upon the function of the law of defamation”.Latham’s tweet was posted five days after the NSW election last year. Four days before the election, Latham had spoken at a Catholic Church in Sydney’s south-west about what he called “religious freedom, parental rights, school education and protecting schools from Alphabet Activism”. Greenwich’s barrister, Dr Matt Collins, KC, told the court on Wednesday that “Alphabet” appeared to be a derogatory term for the LGBTQI community., Collins said.
Smark submitted that the words of the tweet were “vulgar and shocking”, but did not defame Greenwich.comments were in fact conveyed. However, if the court found they were conveyed, he said there was no question that they met the serious harm threshold.
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