Miranda Devine apologises for Quaden Bayles tweets amid defamation case

News Corp columnist says her comments about the Indigenous boy with dwarfism were ‘hurtful and untrue’

Miranda Devine has apologised to a nine-year-old Indigenous boy with dwarfism and his mother, who claims the columnist defamed them.

Devine, who did not send a lawyer to a preliminary defamation hearing in August, appeared to acknowledge the legal case in a tweet on Saturday, and said her previous comments had been “hurtful”.

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In February this year I posted some comments on my personal Twitter account about Quaden Bayles and his mother Yarraka. I now know those comments were hurtful and untrue. I sincerely apologise to the Bayles for those comments.

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