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Australia’s national broadcaster ABC has reportedly reached a confidential settlement in a defamation case over an anti-trans rally in Melbourne organised in March 2023 by British activist Kellie-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker.聽

, ABC said that a March 27, 2023 interview with Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto, could have led the “interview to suggest” that Kellie-Jay Keen “has associations with Neo-Nazis”.聽

The interview was conducted following the ‘Let Women Speak” rally in Melbourne and the action initiated by the Liberal Party against expelled Liberal MP Moira Deeming.聽

, was organised by Kellie-Jay Keen. Neo-Nazi members of the National Socialist Network attended the meeting and clashed with transgender rights activists.

Deeming, who had spoken at the rally, was expelled from the Liberal party in May 2023, after she threatened to sue Pesutto for defamation, claiming the Victorian Liberal leader allegedly accused her of being a 鈥淣azi sympathiser鈥�.

Didn’t As For Damages, Says Kellie-Jay Keen

Host Sarah Ferguson in the program without naming Kellie-Jay Keen referred to聽 鈥渁 woman with neo-Nazi and far-right associations.鈥� Ferguson mentioned the dossier that Pessuto had circulated against Deeming and asked the Liberal leader 鈥渢he organiser of the rally, and this is someone with very clear, for our audience, very clear far-right associations, many of which you detailed in the dossier that you presented to your own party room.鈥�

The ABC reached a confidential out-of-court settlement with Keen, which may have implications for the , reported 今日吃瓜 Corp.

In its clarification, ABC said that the March 27, 2023, 7.30 interview with Pesutto “referred to the organisers of the 鈥淟et Women Speak鈥� event held in Melbourne earlier that month and included a social media post by ‘Posie Parker’.”聽

“Some viewers may have understood the interview to suggest that Kellie-Jay Keen, who was not named in the interview, who organised the Melbourne 鈥淟et Women Speak鈥� event, has associations with Neo-Nazis,” the ABC said, adding, “The ABC understands Ms Keen denies any association with Neo-Nazis and the ABC does not endorse any imputation that may have been conveyed to that effect.”

Kellie-Jay Keen in a video posted on social media said she was “thankful” to the ABC “for their apology and correction”.

The anti-trans campaigner claimed that she had not received any financial damages. “I wanted clarification and that鈥檚 what I got. I didn鈥檛 ask for damages or expenses,