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''Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation'' (1997) 189 CLR 520 is a High Court of Australia case that deals with the implied freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution. ==Background== The plaintiff, David Lange, who was the New Zealand Prime Minister, was the subject of a report on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program ''Four Corners''. He brought defamation proceedings in respect of that broadcast. In April 1990 the defendant broadcast on its ''Four Corners'' program a report which had been broadcast the previous night in New Zealand on Television New Zealand's ''Frontline'' program. The program alleged that the New Zealand Labour Party, then in government, had come to be improperly under the influence of large business interests, as a result of those interests making large donations to New Zealand Labour's 1987 election campaign funds. The plaintiff was the Prime Minister of New Zealand at the relevant time referred to in the report. He contends, among other things, that the report conveyed the false and defamatory imputations that, as Prime Minister, he: a. had permitted big business donors to dictate government policy, and had allowed public assets to be sold to some of those donors in repayment for their donations; b. had abused, and was unfit to hold, public office in that he had permitted a debt incurred by his party in the election campaign to be written off by awarding a government contract to the creditor; c. was corrupt and deceitful in that he had accepted gifts of shares and profits on share trading from a leading business figure, and had permitted that figure to set up a share trading account on his behalf, all in return for permitting the business figure to influence government policy in favour of business interests.〔http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=hcourt&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.nz%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dfour%2520corners%2520on%2520lange%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D2%26ved%3D0CC4QFjAB%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fepublications.bond.edu.au%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1012%2526context%253Dhcourt%26ei%3DO-VkT8rWNY_PmAXPv4W2BA%26usg%3DAFQjCNHNqUXHmuJySMr8ULKkyywENLxcNA#search=%22four%20corners%20lange%22〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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