{"id":321019,"date":"2025-11-22T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321019"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:23:17","slug":"linda-reynolds-accuses-albanese-of-misunderstanding-court-rulings-on-higgins-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321019","title":{"rendered":"Linda Reynolds Accuses Albanese of Misunderstanding Court Rulings on Higgins Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reynolds criticised Albanese for failing to grasp Federal Court and WA Supreme Court rulings that rejected cover-up claims in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=brittany-higgins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Brittany Higgins\">Brittany Higgins<\/a>&#8216; 2019 rape allegation against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bruce-lehrmann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bruce Lehrmann\">Bruce Lehrmann<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The courts found no evidence Reynolds or the prior government hid the matter, with one ordering Higgins to pay Reynolds $315,000 for false social media accusations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions rise over a $2.4 million taxpayer settlement to Higgins, which Reynolds questions in ongoing litigation, as critics call for Labor senators to apologise for past claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The courts found no evidence Reynolds or the prior government hid the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":274414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,35],"tags":[9035,9032,11339],"class_list":["post-321019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-brittany-higgins","tag-bruce-lehrmann","tag-linda-reynolds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321020,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321019\/revisions\/321020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}