Fairfax Media fined $15k for Domain ad

Zoe Samios

May 8, 2018 10:27

Fairfax Media has been fined $15,000 over a newspaper advertisement it printed two years ago promoting its real estate arm, Domain.

The ad, which ran in 2016, contained the phrases ‘#1 property app in Australia’ and ‘the most property listings in Sydney are on Domain’.

Fairfax’s fine follows a legal battle between Domain and its News Corp-owned rival, REA Group, who were in Federal Court early last year over the use of the phrases. But the case in question came after Fairfax gave an undertaking to the court not to publish such phrases.

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Zoe Samios

Zoe Samios worked at Mumbrella between 2016 and 2019, finishing up as senior media reporter in March 2019.

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