I don't want to believe this is true. The Age is a major Australian newspaper - one of the two dailies in Australia's second largest city of Melbourne, and one of the two major left-wing papers in the country (along with its Sydney based sibling, the Sydney Morning Herald. If it has agreed to a court settlement with conditions like the ones implied, at the very least, that need to be public knowledge. As far as I know, no proof of that has been offered - but Quadrant is generally pretty careful and credible in what they write, and they wouldn't be suggesting this was even possible without some reason.
I think The Age's mistake in putting a photo of the wrong person on the front page of their newspaper as the terrorist who attempted to murder two police officers was appalling, and I absolutely believe that it is right they publish a full apology on the front page (which they did) and that they paid considerable compensation (which they did) for that mistake - but this would be something else entirely.
Easy to understand a cash payout.
Hard to believe that any publication would surrender its editorial control as part of a libel settlement.
$500K? For that kind of money, I’d let them call me a terrorist.
It is an actively left-wing newspaper that doesn’t even pretend to be fair and unbiased. I think.Am I Right?