According to a Four Corners progream - Christian
Porter has a background of sexual and inappropriate
behaviour that goes back for decades. Women have
come forward testifying to this. This court case
will prove interesting - especially if there are
witnesses within the Liberal Party who are willing
to come forward and testify on how Mr Porter has
behaved in the past regarding women, et al.

I'm happy to let the legal rigmarole play out and let the chips fall as they may. But already there are two points of interest:

* there is a real effort being made to find out who's backing Porter. Why? Well my guess is so that they can be harassed into abandoning him. Isolate and destroy.

* the ABC seems to have all sorts of defence arguments. But not seen among them is any claim or assertion that what they said was provably true. That's the ABC we've come to know.

The ABC's legal counsel says truth will be a substantial defense, and 15 witnesses will be called on this issue.

Porter's legal counsel says the ABC are not pleading truth for most of the case.

Well, they would say that, wouldn't they.

As for the rest of us, we should not prejudge the case, whatever we think of the ABC or Mr Porter.

Its interesting that the ABC never actually named Porter until Porter outed himself, although the Chinese Whispers correctly identified him early on as "the man", other males in Morrison cabinet such as Greg Hunt and Peter Dutton, would also qualify as unnamed suspects.

I agree that we should simply wait and see what
the courts decide and not prejudge anything -
tempting as it may be - "if it walks like a
duck..." One good thing that may come out of all this
is that it just may make people think twice about
the way they behave. We can only hope.

Wow. 26 out of 36 pages of the ABC were redacted. I'm certainly not clear about the full implications of this besides the obvious impact on transparency. However it will foster the notion by some in the public, legitimately or not, that Porter has many things to hide.

http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/porter-v-abc