A fresh tranche of documents tendered in the reopened Bruce Lehrmann defamation case has confirmed the national anti-corruption watchdog was asked by police to investigate how sensitive documents wound up in the media, including whether any officers engaged in misconduct. The revelation comes as Network Ten won its eleventh hourContinue Reading
Days before Brittany Higgins met with Lisa Wilkinson for the first time in a Sydney hotel room in early 2021, her fiance had said the former Liberal staffer was “scared” by his attempts to get media involved in telling her story, according to documents released by the court. In hisContinue Reading
When Brittany Higgins, her partner David Sharaz, Lisa Wilkinson and producer Angus Llewellyn met in a Sydney hotel room, their conversation turned to the possibility of Bruce Lehrmann one day launching defamation proceedings. It was January 27, 2021 and the four were holding a pre-production meeting to discuss Ms Higgins’Continue Reading
Brittany Higgins’ boyfriend David Sharaz warned Lisa Wilkinson that he needed to contact the broadcaster on her behalf because “this sounds paranoid … we just don’t know who might be keeping a close eye on her”. A former press gallery journalist, Mr Sharaz’ email pitch to Ms Wilkinson was publishedContinue Reading
Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister has accused Brittany Higgins of making a “far-fetched” claim to The Project that the CCTV of the night of her alleged rape was “quietly destroyed”. Network Ten producer Angus Llewellyn was grilled in court on Wednesday about the claim that the footage was “lost”. The Federal CourtContinue Reading
Brittany Higgins tearfully told a colleague that she could not have consented to sex with Bruce Lehrmann because “it would have been like ‘f**king a log’” in the days after the incident. Former departmental liaison officer Chris Payne, a senior public servant with a top secret security clearance, has givenContinue Reading
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has lashed former the Project host Lisa Wilkinson after leaked audio emerged of her making “racist” comments and struggling to pronounce the senator’s name. The audio is part of a recording from the five-hour lunch Wilkinson had with her producer Angus Llewelyn, former Liberal staffer Brittany HigginsContinue Reading
Network Ten has revealed the email its staff sent Bruce Lehrmann ahead of airing a bombshell interview with former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins where she alleged she had been raped in Parliament House. The email, referred to as part of Ten‘s defence to defamation proceedings launched by Mr LehrmannContinue Reading
Lisa Wilkinson is “not a lawyer” and understood her interviews with Brittany Higgins were thoroughly checked by Channel 10’s legal team, her defence claims. In the 23-page legal document defending Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation claim against her and her employer, Wilkinson’s team claims she was not familiar with defamation law andContinue Reading