Defamation claims in the Federal Court cannot rely on service within Australia but outside the ACT to enliven jurisdiction via cross-vesting where the matter has no territorial nexus to the ACT, because the ACT Supreme Court's jurisdiction in such cases exists only by reason of SEPA 1992 (a Commonwealth law), excluding the matter from the definition of 'ACT matter'.
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