High-profile presenter Lisa Wilkinson is locked in a fresh fight with Ten over her million-dollar legal costs of defending Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation suit.
Minister for Women Katy Gallagher says the much-delayed parliamentary standards commission could punish MPs,senators,staffers and others in the building for serious breaches such as sexual assault.
Network Ten has told the Federal Court that Bruce Lehrmann should pay all of its legal costs of defending his failed defamation suit.
The former defence minister was spotted at dinner with the News Corp columnist,a prominent critic of Brittany Higgins,days after the Federal Court’s decision.
MP Linda Reynolds has vowed to continue with a suit against Brittany Higgins if Higgins continues to claim there was a political cover-up over her rape.
At the heart of this case is a woman who has been most shamefully immolated in service of other people’s vanities.
We have increasing difficulty in integrating disparate views,and having civil disagreements. The only antidotes are slowness,nuance,and a tolerance for complexity – all things that are increasingly rare.
What constitutes consent,and what can be used as evidence about whether it was given,has been contested fiercely in Australia since 2015. Justice Michael Lee’s nuanced comments on rape myths could prove a turning point.
Brittany Higgins has made her first public comments about the defamation case over her rape in Parliament House in 2019.
The international fugitive recently paid $50,000 to keep alive his long-running defamation battle against Sydney broadcaster Ray Hadley,who called him a “shoddy developer.”
After the awful,vitriolic and often ignorant public debate we’ve seen during the Lehrmann trial,now is the time to elevate the best drivers of change:experts,evidence and experience.