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Nine’s AFR print edition to cease in WA after Seven’s press doubles production price

Posted on May 9, 2024 by Admin

Seven says decision purely commercial but Financial Review editor accuses rival company of ‘abuse of market power’

The print edition of Nine’s Australian Financial Review will no longer be available in Western Australia after the Seven-owned printing facility doubled the price of producing the newspaper.

Billionaire media mogul Kerry Stokes owns the only major newspaper printing press in the state and has contracts to print competitors’ products, including the financial daily for Nine as well as The Australian for News Corp.

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Seven paid legal fees for witness in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation trial until arrangement was revealed in court

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Admin

Request for reimbursement from Kerry Stokes’s private company not made until after court told of network’s legal financing

The Seven Network was paying the legal fees of several SAS witnesses for Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation trial until one of them revealed the payments in the federal court, contradicting Seven’s claim last week that the former soldier’s evidence about the source of the payments was “not correct”.

When the former SAS soldier, known as Person 5, told the court last week that his solicitor and barrister are being paid for by Seven, the network said another arm of the empire owned by Seven West Media chair, Kerry Stokes, was footing the bill.