Fiona Brown, the former chief of staff to Linda Reynolds, testifies in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case regarding an alleged incident in the ministerial office. Brown denies being informed about the incident by Brittany Higgins.
The former chief of staff to then defence industry minister Linda Reynolds has told Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case that her “antenna was up” when Lehrmann told her he had gone back to the Liberal senator’s Parliament House office in the early hours of a Saturday to drink whisky.
But Fiona Brown, who was Reynolds’ chief of staff in March 2019, has denied the minister’s then media adviser Brittany Higgins told her on March 26, 2019, that she had woken up in the early hours of March 23 in the office and her then colleague Lehrmann had been “on top of me”. Brown was called to give evidence on Monday in Lehrmann’s defamation case against Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over an interview with Higgins aired onon February 15, 2021. Brown’s evidence was not livestreamed on YouTube owing to mental health considerations. “I’m not going to be responsible for unnecessarily exacerbating people’s mental health issues,” Justice Michael Lee said. Brown told the Federal Court in Sydney that she had thought it was “possible” Lehrmann and Higgins had had sex in the ministerial offic
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