Opinion writer from The Australian tells colleagues much of the media appear to have applied ‘believe all women’ only to Brittany Higgins
The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen says in reference to the Brittany Higgins rape allegations that she ‘was interested in whether there could be a fair trial’.The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen says in reference to the Brittany Higgins rape allegations that she ‘was interested in whether there could be a fair trial’.“I was never, and I don’t want this to sound callous, but I was never terribly interested in what happened that night,” Albrechtsen told The Australian’s subscriber event last week.
Albrechtsen’s concern for Lehrmann extended to Higgins’ bosses Fiona Brown and Senator Linda Reynolds but she made no mention of the alleged victim.Albrechtsen said the “trial by media” that ensued when Higgins made her allegation of rape to news.com.au and Channel Ten’s The Project “was terribly unfair to two women who were at the centre of that”.
Albrechtsen claims that once the former prime minister Scott Morrison apologised to Higgins in parliament “it was impossible to have a fair trial” and it was “unfair to a defendant who had been charged and not yet heard in a court of law”. Sofronoff made 55 calls to journalists at The Australian, the majority directly to Albrechtsen, and sent her a copy of his report in late July, before its official release in August.
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