Recordings reveal how Brittany Higgins confided in TV journalist Lisa Wilkinson about her former boss Linda Reynolds.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Three years ago, a 26-year-old media adviser to a federal Liberal minister took a day off work, flew from Canberra to Sydney and told two senior journalists that she had been raped by a colleague in Parliament House – but that she was not the real story.
The WA Supreme Court trial of Reynolds’ defamation case against Higgins started on August 2 and is slated to run for five weeks. It is set against the backdrop of Federal Court Justice Michael Lee’s Higgins denies those allegations and says this claim is barred because it was brought after a limitation period that expired in March.Reynolds has already received a measure of vindication. In his decision on April 15, Lee gave no credence to the suggestion in the Ten broadcast that Higgins was forced to choose between her career and pursuing justice, and rejected what he described as a political cover-up narrative.
As litigation is apt to do, the trial has exposed aspects of Reynolds’ conduct she’d likely rather stayed secret, including “catty” texts the WA senator sent about her former staffer’s wardrobe and confidential documents she leaked toThe feud between Higgins, now pregnant with her first child, and her former boss is punctuated with a series of flashpoints, including a meeting between Higgins, Reynolds and Brown in the minister’s office on Monday, April 1, 2019.
Reynolds alleges Higgins, who replied to the tweet, was a publisher of the post and that it branded Reynolds a hypocrite. Higgins’ defence denies the claims and says Reynolds cannot sue over this tweet because a one-year limitation period has expired.Lehrmann’s ACT Supreme Court criminal trial started and was aborted within weeks in October 2022 due to juror misconduct. The charge was later dropped owing to concerns about Higgins’ mental health.
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