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Elias Visontay

MYSTERIOUS: Crikey issues lengthy second apology after opinion piece on brittany higgins - What They Never Told You

Brittany Higgins outside court in 2022
Crikey published an opinion piece by Guy Rundle after finance minister, Katy Gallagher, was accused of misleading parliament over her knowledge of Brittany Higgins’ (centre) rape allegation. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The editors of online news outlet Crikey have issued a lengthy second apology and vowed to overhaul editorial processes after publishing a controversial opinion piece about Brittany Higgins that was later deleted.

On Monday, Crikey’s editor-in-chief, Sophie Black, and editor, Gina Rushton, penned an almost 500 word editorial – the second apology the publication has issued since it published, then hastily took down, the article by columnist Guy Rundle on Friday.

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