Eatock v Bolt

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
CourtFederal Court
Judgment Date2011
Neutral Citation2011-0928 FCA C,2011-1019 FCA D
Date2011
Year2011

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  • McHugh v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 7 April 2020
    ...Detention Centre at Port Headland (1993) 115 FLR 416 Dillon v R [1982] AC 484 Dixon v Lekich [2010] QCA 213; 56 MVR 70 Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103; 197 FCR 261 EFX17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2019] FCAFC 230; 374 ALR 272 Ex parte Walsh; In re Yates [1925] HCA 53; 3......
  • Smethurst v Commissioner of Police
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 15 April 2020
    ...and Consumer Commission v Real Estate Institute of Western Australia Inc (1999) 95 FCR 114 at 132–133 [45]–[49]; Eatock v Bolt (2011) 197 FCR 261 at 363 [455], 365–366 [465]–[468] read with Eatock v Bolt [No 2] (2011) 284 ALR 114 at 117–119 [14]–[23]. See also Moore v Canadian Newspapers Co......
  • Helmbright v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs (No 2)
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 15 June 2021
    ...South Australia [2003] FCAFC 286; 133 FCR 325 Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Thomas [2016] VSCA 237; 315 FLR 31 Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103; 197 FCR 261 Ex parte Walsh and Johnson; In re Yates [1925] HCA 53; 37 CLR 36 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Gayle [2019] NSWCA 172; 1......
  • Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC v District Council of Kimba
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 12 July 2019
    ...[2016] FCA 724 Croft on behalf of the Barngarla Native Title Claim Group v State of South Australia (No 3) [2018] FCA 552 Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103; (2011) 197 FCR 261 Gerhardy v Brown [1985] HCA 11; (1985) 159 CLR 70 Griffiths v Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment [2008] HCA 2......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Defamation as a weapon against systemic racism?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 24 October 2022
    ...Act') s 10A. 22 See Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd [2019] UKSC 27, [10]-[12]. 23 Hollier (n 19) 3.1.1. 24 Defamation Act s 3(c). 25 (2011) 197 FCR 261, 266 [27], [29]. 26 Eatock v Bolt (No 2) (2011) 284 ALR 114, [3]-[4]. 27 'NT Aboriginal Figure Admits Role in Tent Embassy Protest', AM (AB......
4 books & journal articles
  • Context and the Limits of Legal Reasoning: The ‘Victim Focus’ of Section 18c in Comparative Perspective
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 44-2, June 2016
    • 1 June 2016
    ...robust debate while preparing this paper. All views expressed are my own. All translations are also my own except where indicated. 1 (2011) 197 FCR 261 (‘Eatock’). 258 Federal Law Review Volume 44 _____________________________________________________________________________________ against ......
  • The collective dimension of federal anti-discrimination proceedings in Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Discrimination and the Law No. 18-1, March 2018
    • 1 March 2018
    ...Ek stein,2016) the vilification claim involving newspaper articles critical of a group of ‘fairskinned Aboriginal people’ (Eatock v Bolt [2011] FCA 1103). Ms Eatock brought thataction on her own behalf, and on behalf of people like her, who have fairer (rather thandarker) skin, and who (by ......
  • WHITEWASHING AUSTRALIA'S HISTORY OF STIGMATISING TRADE MARKS AND COMMERCIAL IMAGERY.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 3, April 2019
    • 1 April 2019
    ...the Year accolade as a reward for Goodes' 'disproportionate reaction' in calling out racist epithets. Interestingly, in Eatock v Bolt (2011) 197 FCR 261, the Federal Court held that Bolt's comments elsewhere regarding Aboriginal Australians breached racial vilification laws. Miranda Devine ......
  • ADDRESSING THE VILIFICATION OF WOMEN: A FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF HARM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LAW.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 43 No. 3, April 2020
    • 1 April 2020
    ...(Routledge, 1997). That premise has been accepted, at least implicitly, by some courts; see, eg, Hudnut (n 34); Eatock v Bolt (2011) 197 FCR 261, 357 [421] (Bromberg J) ('Eatock'), in the Australian (75) See above n 71. (76) MacKinnon and Dworkin define pornography as a subset of sexually e......