The Supreme Court of Queensland ruled the publication of ten separate posts on Facebook about Karting Australia CEO Kelvin O’Reilly were defamatory. The publisher of the defamatory matter had described the CEO as a “bully” and a “crook” and accused him of “incompetence,” “corruption,” “sexual harassment” and bringing “disrepute” to Karting Australia. The Court observed that the posts were injurious to the reputation of the CEO as there was no truth in, nor basis for, the alleged imputations. Considering the injury to O’Reilly’s personal and business reputation, as well as his personal distress owing to the "grapevine” effect, i.e. rapid and widespread dissemination of information, the Court awarded damages. The Court also awarded “aggravated damages” because of the lack of good faith demonstrated by the publisher before and during trial. Thus, an aggregate amount of $250,000 Australian Dollars with interest on damages was awarded to the Karting Australia CEO and an injunction order was passed ordering the publisher to remove the posts and to restrain any future publication of the defamatory material.