Hedonistic parties feature in a previously unseen draft of a memoir by Higgins that has been brought to light in a reopened defamation lawsuit.
A reopened defamation lawsuit has unearthed a previously unseen draft of a memoir by Brittany Higgins, which details hedonistic scenes in the nation’s capital and alleges one politician played with the buttons on her blazer while another threw a party resembling scenes fromThe former ministerial adviser describes serving drinks to a group of Liberal MPs she labelled “The Big Swinging Dicks”.
Lehrmann was named in August 2021 as the man accused of Higgins’ rape when he was charged with one count of sexual assault. His ACT Supreme Court trial was aborted in October 2022 due to juror misconduct and he did not face a second trial owing to concerns about Higgins’ mental health. “First meeting with the infamous group known as ‘The Big Swinging Dicks’ in minister Ciobo’s office,” Higgins writes of her early days in Canberra.Higgins alleges that Ciobo threw a Christmas party where he was lining up staff, including Higgins, and pouring whiskey directly into their mouths.
“Looking like they are all about ready to go on air and present on Fox News … the modern day, working, Stepford wife.” The book also offers a window into Higgins’ relationship with Sharaz, as well as the journalists who broke the rape allegations, Wilkinson and News Corp reporter Samantha Maiden. “He had lost so much during all of this; his job, his home, his friends, his anonymity. It was a debt that I would never be able to repay.”and Maiden about when to break the story for maximum impact.She describes staying with Wilkinson and her husband, Peter FitzSimons, a columnist for this masthead, as like residing with her “temporary adopted parents”.
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