The ex-political adviser turned victory into defeat in the quest for money. He will now be known as the rapist who put himself on trial, and lost.
Already a subscriber?When the final moment came, five years and 24 days after that fateful, drunken night in Parliament House, Bruce Lehrmann couldn’t bring himself to look at his judge.
The victim wasn’t present. One of the prosecutors was. Broadcaster Lisa Wilkinson, who was more responsible than anyone else for making Brittany Higgins famous, sat through the two-and-half-hour summary judgment on the far side of room. Wilkinson and Ten won, but lost too. What Wilkinson had called the “most important work I would ever do” failed to meet the standards of basic journalism.
Her boss, then defence industry minister Linda Reynolds was accused, unfairly, of callously hoping the Higgins hassle would solve itself.News Corp journalist Samantha Maiden, who Lehrmann also sued. “I felt like they were ticking a box. That they had to have this conversation with me in order to say on the record ‘We told her she could go to the police.
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