Louise Milligan
Louise Milligan is an Australian investigative reporter for the ABC TV "7.30" and "Four Corners" programs. As of March 2021, she is the author of two award-winning non-fiction books. Career. Born in Ireland, Milligan grew up in the Roman Catholic faith. She graduated from Monash University with an Arts/Law degree. Early in her career she was High Court reporter for "The Australian". She subsequently spent seven years reporting for "Seven News" before joining "ABC News". Melbourne University Press (MUP) published Milligan's first book, "Cardinal", in May 2017. A month later MUP withdrew the book  from bookshops across Victoria in response to Victoria Police charging Cardinal George Pell with historic sex assault. "Cardinal" was returned to Victorian bookshops in February 2019. In 2019, she was invited to give the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law annual lecture. Her talk was titled "A journalist's defence of trial procedures". Defamation suits. In 2021, the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General Christian Porter commenced defamation proceedings against her for an article published on 26 February 2021 which he says made a false rape allegation against him. Porter discontinued the action in May 2021 after the ABC agreed to post  an editorial note to the original publication and to pay mediation costs. In 2021, federal MP Andrew Laming commenced defamation proceedings against Milligan for four tweets sent on March 28, 2021. He alleged one tweet implied he admitted to illegally taking a photo of a woman's underwear as she bent over in Brisbane in 2019. In August 2021 Milligan agreed to pay Laming approximately $130,000 in damages and fees.