When the Herald Sun last Sunday decided to run the now-discredited photographs it claimed were of Pauline Hanson, columnist Robyn Riley wrote a furious pre-emptive defence of her newspaper’s actions. PAULINE Hanson may argue it is an invasion of her privacy for the Sunday Herald Sun to publish explicit photographs taken of her when she [...]

The Herald Sun‘s Robyn Riley has come out in furious defence of her newspaper’s decision to publish photographs of a teenaged Pauline Hanson posing explicitly. Riley’s weak argument is that the photographs are in the public interest and that public figures are public property — even their actions as teenagers over thirty years ago. Public [...]