Lawyer for Linda Reynolds tells defamation trial Credlin was told ‘completely rework wherever you see fit’
helped draft Brittany Higgins’ statement given to media in 2021, after her rape allegations were made public, a court has been told.
Young said Higgins did, however, have agency when she decided to come forward to the media and publicly speak about her experience to achieve reform in February 2021. Credlin responded with some suggestions and another exhibit showed a final version of the statement was texted to Higgins by Sharaz. Bennett said the correspondence demonstrated the level of media planning Higgins engaged in following the publication of her rape allegations. He claimed Higgins’ voice was sometimes the voice of “people jumping on bandwagons”.Young responded it was usual for media statements to go through a series of drafts and that it didn’t “detract” from Higgins’ words.
Witness evidence over the weeks has dealt with the alleged harm Reynolds faced by the posts but has also centred on other events across the five-year period after Higgins alleged she had been raped by her then colleague Bruce Lehrmann in the then defence minister’s office in Parliament House in 2019.
The court was shown text messages showing Higgins had been offered an appointment with the counselling service on 18 April 2019 – nearly a month after the alleged rape. Bennett responded Reynolds was discharged to go home the next day because she was due to address the National Press Club on defence policies “given in the interest of the nation”.
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