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.
One of Senator Linda Reynolds' closest colleagues and friends recalled watching her “be brought to her knees” following relentless attacks on her mishandling of Brittany Higgins' rape complaint.
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.
Despite not having a Supercars podium finish to his name yet this year, Team 18's David Reynolds has thrown down the gauntlet ahead of Race 17 by setting the two fastest practice laps.
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.
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.