Greens Senator Retracts Defamatory Comments, Apologises After Minister Sues

Greens Senator Retracts Defamatory Comments, Apologises After Minister Sues
Greens Senator Larissa Waters and Leader Adam Bandt and hold a snap press conference in the Mural Hall at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on March 15, 2021. Sam Mooy/Getty Images
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Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters has issued a public apology for the defamatory comments she made about Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.

Waters admitted that on Feb. 21, she published a media release on her website and Twitter and made comments during a press conference that contained false and defamatory statements that Dutton, a Liberal politician, was a rape apologist.

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