In October 2021, Mr Barilaro settled with Mr Shanks - the settlement required him to remove the defamatory parts of the two videos sued upon, make an apology (which was read in open court in November 2021), and pay Mr Barilaro $100,000 in costs.Yes but he won on a technicality. What Bruz said was protected by Parliamentary privilege so couldn't be used as evidence that he actually said it, even though he actually said it. And he didn't actually win that big. The dirt Jordies exposed Bruz for caused him to leave parliament and lose the cushy job he had lined up and his general downfall since. Jordies stated what he had to pay Bruz and it wasn't much. Google paid up big though.
I'd love if Jordies looked into it as he's a very thorough and good journalist (very rare today), but I think it's too niche so wouldn't get the views he'd need to make it viable.
Google were hit with +$700k damages. Barilaro won large.
Contempt, defamation, and the dissemination of online ‘poison’: part one
In part one of our analysis of Barilaro, we provide an overview of the circumstances leading up to the decision, including what went wrong for Google as it progressively abandoned all of its defences until it was on the receiving end of one of the most scathing defamation judgments in recent times.