If the Canberra bubble bursts, the mud will stick and there will be hardly any place to hide. During a five-week, spectacular defamation trial between Senator Linda Reynolds and her former employee Brittany Higgins, all private text messages and emails between federal ministers, senators, employees, journalists in the press gallery and lawyers were made public.
In a defamation case, it was established that Brittany Higgins received therapy within days of her alleged rape in Parliament House. Contrary to her own statements to the media, therapy was not available for months. Ms Higgins is at loggerheads with her former boss, Senator Linda Reynolds, over a series of social media posts that … Read more
Relentless political attacks over Brittany Higgins' rape cover-up allegations have brought Linda Reynolds to her knees, and she is struggling to recover, her senator Anne Ruston said in a defamation trial. Senator Reynolds is suing her former staffer Ms Higgins – who is fighting the suit – over a series of social media posts that … Read more
Brittany Higgins will no longer testify in the defamation trial against Senator Linda Reynolds.
A decision will be made as to whether Senator Linda Reynolds' former chief of staff, Fiona Brown, will be excused from giving personal testimony.
Linda Reynolds' legal team is attempting to obtain any correspondence between a Walkley Award-winning journalist and Brittany Higgins relating to a fundraiser allegedly seeking aggravated damages.
Andrew Reynolds was the final witness to be interviewed in his sister's defamation suit against Brittany Higgins. The former staffer alleged that she was assaulted by Bruce Lehrmann in Senator Reynolds' office.
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to testify in the spectacular defamation trial between Senators Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins. Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins and her husband David Sharaz in the Supreme Court of Western Australia over posts the couple shared in 2022 and 2023 criticising Ms Reynolds' handling of Ms Higgins' … Read more
Linda Reynolds' partner has categorically denied that he attended Bruce Lehrmann's rape trial to inform the senator of the current evidence – and also claimed that he did not care at all about the verdict.
Senator Linda Reynolds suffered a complete nervous breakdown after being confronted with the claim that she had been warned of a Labor Party plan to ruin her in connection with the Brittany Higgins affair.