Defamation is a communication which adversely affects the reputation of another person.
The communication may be in any form which is published' such as in words, pictures, photographs, advertisements, cartoons, performances and now songs. Whilst there may be room for debate about the meaning of the song, the Court did not hesitate in finding it defamatory. In September this year the Queensland Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by the ABC to have the injunction lifted. The Court of Appeal affirmed the lower Court's decision that not only was the material capable of being defamatory, but that it was defamatory, and thus the injunction was upheld. When the song is taken as a whole and in its context of being a piece of satirical political comment on Ms Hanson's conservative political views, the song is not capable of giving rise to defamatory imputations.