Google has been ordered to hand over the account information and IP address of a person who allegedly defamed a Victorian Labor candidate in an email.
Nurul Khan was endorsed to run for the Labor Party in last year's state election but an email littered with allegations against him was sent to ministers and news organisations on November 9.
He was subsequently disendorsed as an Upper House candidate for the Western Metropolitan region before the November 26 poll.
Mr Khan has taken Google to the Federal Court, seeking to find out the identity of the anonymous sender so he can sue that person for defamation.
His barrister Justin Castelan described the contents of the email as "absolutely defamatory", reading out a number of the sender's claims to the court on Tuesday.
The email accused Mr Khan of corruption and abuse, saying he had to pay fines for being unethical.
Mr Castelan sought for Google to hand over the sender's user account information and IP address.
Representatives for Google did not appear at the Federal Court in Melbourne on Tuesday, instead sending through a proposed order.
Justice Catherine Button ordered the tech giant to provide the subscriber registration information from the Google account, as well as the email address's IP logins on and around November 9.
The company has 20 days to comply from the service of the order.
Another hearing has been set down for August to see if Mr Khan can persist with his defamation action.
