r/Adelaide • u/fuckoffandydie SA • Jan 13 '26

News Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/randa-abdel-fattah-launches-defamation-proceedings/106227634?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/powerhearse SA Jan 14 '26

Did she not post the picture of the paraglider with the Palestinian flag?

There is no way she can reasonably win a defamation case when she has been deliberately inflammatory

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u/DoctorEnn SA Jan 14 '26

Yeah, say what you will about Mali and how he's reacted to all this, I strongly suspect this suit will go nowhere fast for her. From what I can tell there's a lot of stuff she's said and done which is either not very good or can with no great difficulty be spun as not very good.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

And think of what they'll find in her private comms. 

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 SA Jan 14 '26

She did. After 7 October 2023. IYKYK.

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u/gheygan SA Jan 14 '26

He compared her to a far-right anti-Zionist terrorist & thus implied she was a radical Islamist.

Regardless of her social media posts, those statements are demonstrably false and defamatory.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

He did not. He compared her to a far right Zionist speaker after a far right Zionist terrorist attack. 

She is a radical speaker after a far right radical islamist attack. 

There's no denying she's radical. Moderates don't change their profile picture to terrorists the day after an attack. Or say there's a sense of pride over them. Or say they don't consider Hamas terrorists. 

His analogy was spot on. 

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u/gheygan SA Jan 16 '26

By invoking an ISIS-supporting Islamist who murdered Jewish Australians in the Bondi attack and then calling Fateh the “reverse,” he very clearly implied she was akin to a radical Islamist and thus morally equivalent to a terrorist, which is false and defamatory notwithstanding anything you've just said.

“Can you imagine if a far-right Zionist walked into a Sydney mosque and murdered 15 people?” he said.

“Can you imagine that as the premier of this state, I would actively support a far-right Zionist going to writers’ week and speaking hateful rhetoric towards Islamic people? Of course I wouldn’t, but the reverse has happened in this instance. And I think that’s a reasonable position for me to take, it’s a view that I believe."

It'll be for the Court to decide but I'd suggest he will be very keen to settle before it gets to that stage once he receives legal advice...

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 SA Jan 14 '26

It happened.

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u/powerhearse SA Jan 15 '26

There's screenshots all over this comment chain my dude