News Corp settles with Bruce Lehrmann https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12138137/News-Corp-settle-Bruce-Lehrmann-Brittany-Higgins-news-com-au-stories.html
Spot the difference in the reporting Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Forgot to mention he discontinued BECAUSE News Corp offered to settle and pay his legal fees.
F**k me this gets grubbier every time you look..................and again no mention of the $3 mill.; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-03/act-board-of-inquiry-into-bruce-lehrmanns-trial-wraps-up/102436622
Gee.........A lot of unknowns are now coming out. Higgins's partner and Gallagher's dealings, the so-called rape up in Parliament as Albo was dead in the water, the Ch7 interview, and the bruise to her leg ,chuck in Wilkinson, it's the drama that can bring down a government.
Something intelligent from News.com: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/brittany-higgins-government-compensation-to-be-investigated-by-anticorruption-commission/news-story/b163df43b85deef072c21cca45d543dc
I can tell you exactly what the left think: Who cares? As long as it helped get rid of a Liberal government it’s all good. And that’s from the supposedly more caring, more moral side of the political fence…
Here we go. The truth is starting to emerge, and it’s very ugly for Labor. Image Unavailable, Please Login
And there’s about ten pages more, including direct contact with Albo and Plibersek. Going to be hard to deny now, after all three of the Labor scumbags emphatically denied it today.
No, this is all coming out now. There was that Channel 7 interview on Sunday - a surprisingly good piece of journalism from a mainstream media organisation (probably at least in part because it damages Channel 10, but who cares). And now someone has leaked pages and pages of these texts to The Australian. They even involve at least one ABC journalist in the plot, and several Labor MPs, and of course Malcolm Turnbull gets a mention. I think Katy Gallagher may go down over this - it was her department that authorised the multi million $ payout to Higgins and refused to let Senator Reynolds be part of the discussion. Albo may have to make her the sacrificial lamb to save his own arse. They real question now is: Will the mainstream media (esp. ABC) go after this in the same way that they would if it was Coalition politicians involved, or will they go soft on it and hope it all just goes away?
Talk about dumb and dumber,this is getting grubbier and grubbier: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/attorneygeneral-defends-secrecy-of-multimilliondollar-payout-to-brittany-higgins/news-story/cdc17eba5ad9607e2c645bcafabd518e
This: " Peter Dutton has backed a move to refer the confidential Commonwealth payout made to former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins to the new federal integrity watchdog for investigation. The Opposition Leader told 2GB Radio on Thursday that Anthony Albanese and other senior figures in the federal government had questions to answer about the payout and what they knew about Ms Higgins’ rape allegation and when. “It just seems that as each day goes by, there are more questions than there are answers and I think that’s creating a lot of suspicion understandably,” Mr Dutton said. Ms Higgins reached a settlement with the Commonwealth in December last year after she launched legal action against her employers the former Coalition government over their handling of her rape allegation. Mr Dutton said he thought the new National Anti-Corruption Commission, due to be operational next month, would have an interest in looking at the “sequence of events” that led to Ms Higgins’ payout. “Because, if there is a question about the process involved in a payout or there is a question around the Prime Minister’s own words in relation to this … they’re very serious allegations,” he said. Mr Dutton made the remarks after former Coalition minister Linda Reynolds said she might ask the NACC to investigate the government’s decision to award compensation to Ms Higgins, her former staffer. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has backed a move to refer the payout to the NACC. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Martin Ollman Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has backed a move to refer the payout to the NACC. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Martin Ollman Ms Higgins alleged she was raped in 2019 by her colleague Bruce Lehrmann inside Senator Reynolds’ ministerial office when they were both working for the former defence minister. Mr Lehrmann has always denied Ms Higgins’ allegation and pleaded not guilty. He was not required to give evidence in his trial in the ACT Supreme Court last year that was derailed by juror misconduct before prosecutors later dropped the charges against him. Fresh media reports of leaked text messages between Ms Higgins and her partner David Sharaz suggest the pair discussed strategizing with Finance Minister Katy Gallagher when she was a Labor frontbencher in opposition. Senator Gallagher had previously said she didn’t know about the alleged sexual assault until the story broke. In June 2021, she responded with outrage when she was asked in parliament whether she knew about Ms Higgins’ allegations before the former staffer came forward. At the time, Senator Reynolds claimed she had been tipped off to Labor being aware of the allegation before it became public knowledge. An indignant Senator Gallagher responded by saying: “No one had any knowledge. How dare you.” Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said she didn’t know about Brittany Higgins’ allegation until the story broke. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said she didn’t know about Brittany Higgins’ allegation until the story broke. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman Now finance minister, Senator Gallagher is responsible for the department that paid the confidential settlement to Ms Higgins. Senator Gallagher told ABC Radio on Wednesday that she had “absolutely no role” in processing or paying out Ms Higgins’ compensation claim. Asked about her relationship with Mr Sharaz, she said she had known him when he was a journalist in Canberra and she was the ACT chief minister. “But I have nothing further to add. My statements are all on the record, and I’m comfortable with those,” she said. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus rejected suggestions the government had any questions to answer about the settlement paid to Ms Higgins that he said was “entirely in accordance” with the law. “It’s very common for the Commonwealth to settle claims on the basis of agreed confidentiality,” he told Nine’s Today Show on Thursday. “It’s very often in the Commonwealth’s interests that there be confidentiality and, often in the case of sexual harassment claims, there is a desire on the part of the claimant to keep the matter confidential.” Opens up the floodgates for anyone whom has a beef (or no beef ) with anyone they think has been sexually harassed....proven or otherwise. Sorry I thought I'd only copied about the last 6 or so sentences,it still makes for scary reading
