$135k for a tweet: Linda Reynolds wins defamation case against Brittany Higgins
Former West Australian senator Linda Reynolds has won her defamation case against Brittany Higgins, with a Supreme Court judge finding some social media posts made by former political staffer were untrue, designed to discredit and “actuated by malice”.
Reynolds sued Higgins for defamation in the wake of the latter’s 2019 rape in Reynold’s ministerial office in Parliament House in Canberra. An earlier court case found that “on the balance of probablities”, Bruce Lehrmann raped Higgins.
Linda Reynolds in her Senate days
Reynolds was subsequently portrayed by Higgins as involved in a cover up of the rape allegation, which Reynolds denied vehemently and took Higgins to court over.
Today, former Senator Reynolds received justice.
One day, I hope her former chief of staff Fiona Brown does as well.
What both these women have been put through is a national disgrace.
The suggestions/allegations made against the former senator and her chief of staff was, is, and always has been, a totally separate issue to one’s position on the Higgins/ Lehrmann rape allegations.
This whole torrid affair has cost Australia two fine and dedicated public servants in Reynolds and Brown.
The media, very early on, sided with Brittany and lapped up everything she and her ‘close media mates’ spewed.
The media in this country, just as in the US and UK, is highly politically biased.