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Higgins 'very broken' after alleged parliamentary rape

A close confidant of Brittany Higgins has told a court she was sobbing in his arms days after being allegedly raped by Bruce Lehrmann on a minister's couch.

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Colleague raised Bruce Lehrmann’s treatment of Brittany Higgins weeks before alleged rape, court hears

Former Liberal staffer Nicky Hamer tells Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial she resigned from Linda Reynolds’ office over alleged behaviour

The Guardian - AU

News Corp agreed to pay Bruce Lehrmann $295,000 to settle defamation claim, court documents reveal

Payment revealed after ABC agreed to pay him $150,000 and remove Facebook video of Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame speech at National Press Club

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Afternoon Update: former Liberal staffer gives evidence in Lehrmann defamation case; US to place visa bans on some Israeli settlers; and first summer heatwave

Scientists warn many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer as carbon pollution heats the planet

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Seven paying Bruce Lehrmann’s rent exposes the ethical slippery slope of Chequebook Land

Exclusive rights to tabloid TV interviews are hammered out behind closed doors, leaving the public in the dark

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Higgins, Lehrmann 'quite touchy' before alleged rape

Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins were touching each other and kissing passionately before her alleged rape on a senator's couch, a court has been told.

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Lehrmann proceedings day 10 – as it happened

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Morning Mail: surgery times spiral, daily letter deliveries to end, Gaza fighting ‘most intense yet’

New data shows elective surgery wait lists are highest ever recorded; Australia Post to annouce end of five-day-a-week letter delivery service as losses grow

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Brittany Higgins volunteered to be defamation trial witness as she ‘would not let rapist become a millionaire’, court hears

Higgins also tells court she had ‘no issue’ with a second criminal trial but it was ruled out by her medical condition

The Guardian - AU

Channel Seven paid $4,000 a fortnight in rent for Bruce Lehrmann interview, documents reveal

Document uploaded by the federal court suggests former Liberal staffer’s deal with the network may be worth $104,000

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Afternoon Update: Higgins challenged over account of alleged rape; EV sales up 50k in last year; and NYC woman dies in garbage chute

Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister casts doubt over how drunk Brittany Higgins was on the night of the alleged rape at Parliament House

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Lehrmann proceedings day nine – as it happened

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Higgins denies attempt to 'blow up' rape retrial

Brittany Higgins has rejected assertions a speech she gave after the jury was discharged in Bruce Lehrmann's criminal case was designed to derail a retrial.

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Walkley awards to review ‘chequebook journalism’ rules after Bruce Lehrmann rent payment revealed in court

The journalism foundation board did not say it would withdraw Seven’s shortlisting for the 2023 scoop of the year award for Liam Bartlett’s interview with Lehrmann

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Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial: two lives in the balance over the rape allegations dividing Australia

In a dramatic week in court, Lehrmann was cross-examined for the first time over the allegation he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in Canberra, which he strenuously denies

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Brittany Higgins wore dress she was allegedly raped in to Liberal function weeks later to ‘reclaim it’, court hears

Former Liberal staffer tells federal court defamation trial she initially thought she could ‘disassociate’ from the alleged rape

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Afternoon Update: Brittany Higgins cross-examination continues; Smithsonian returns Indigenous remains; and first LGBTQ+ couple legally weds in south Asia

Higgins says she wore white pencil dress at Liberal party function after the alleged rape because she was ‘trying to reclaim it’

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Channel Seven’s Bruce Lehrmann scoop gets an unwelcome new airing

Awkward questions follow admission in defamation trial that Seven paid Lehrmann’s rent for a year. Plus: Rod Carnegie survives, whatever Nine may say

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Lehrmann proceedings day eight - as it happened

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Bruise may not have been from alleged rape: Higgins

Brittany Higgins has been quizzed over a bruise allegedly sustained on the night of her claimed rape at Parliament House in Canberra.

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Brittany Higgins visibly angry and in tears as Bruce Lehrmann’s barrister accuses her of lying about alleged rape

Higgins tells court ‘it wasn’t my primary concern where my dress was’ during alleged rape as she faces questions under cross-examination

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Lehrmann proceedings day seven – as it happened

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Senior prosecutor to be embedded in police sexual assault team

Inquiry revealed some officers were 'confused' about when to charge.

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Higgins denies fabricating Parliament House rape claim

Brittany Higgins has stood by her claim she was sexually assaulted on a federal minister's couch and denied suggestions she lied about it to keep her job.

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Brittany Higgins felt ‘hurt’ and ‘abandoned’ by Liberal party after alleging Bruce Lehrmann raped her

Former Liberal staffer tells defamation trial she was upset ‘all these good people did nothing’ in her time of need

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