Previously secret documents have surfaced showing the alleged tactics Labor used which denied Linda Reynolds of her defence against Brittany Higgins’ claims of a political cover-up.
Justice Paul Tottle found in August that social media posts from Higgins and Sharaz had conveyed an imputation that Reynolds and her office had orchestrated to “cover up” the alleged rape of Higgins.
Television and online news interviews. The National Press Club. The Women’s March. The #MeToo movement. A $325,000 book deal. An unending stream of social media posts.
The Federal Court has ordered Bruce Lehrmann to pay Network Ten’s costs in defending his failed defamation case over an interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project.