The torts of abuse of process and malicious prosecution are available in Australia to fight SLAPP but such responses depend on the willingness and financial ability of those involved to use them.

Taking that road seems absurd concidering the manner in how Telstra has embraced the SLAPP concept of playing the man and not the ball and built upon it.

Hiring a deranged blogger to threaten someone and concocting a criminal consipacy to blackmail an opponent took Telstra beyond the realms of SLAPP into a whole new ballgame.

Irrespective of what that ballgame is called, Telstra deserve credit.