Giles wrote
> In Australia you can libel someone even if what you say about them is
> true and provable, you would have to prove that what you said about
> someone was both true and that it was in the publics interest to know
> about it.
"Public interest" is usually interpreted narrowly, applying only
to politicians and not even to their private lives.
So the absence of bad stories about any given Australian camera
dealer on lists like this does *not* mean that dealeris safe to deal
with.
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