Court Tosses Defamation Case, Raising the Bar for Proving Harm

Justice Elizabeth Raper dismissed Charlotte MacInnes's defamation suit against Rebel Wilson on July 22, 2026, after MacInnes failed to prove serious harm. The ruling signals that Australian defamation claimants must show concrete evidence of damage — not merely infer it from audience size, even where the respondent had 11 million followers. The posts concerned an alleged retracted sexual harassment complaint.