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Speaker 1: on the Front. I'm Claire Harvey. It's Thursday, August eighth.

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Speaker 1: A new theory about autism from a decade long study

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Speaker 1: Live right now at the Australian dot com dot If

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Speaker 1: you thought the Bruce Lammon defamation trial was big, well

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Speaker 1: buckle your seat belts for the Brittany Higgins trial. This

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Speaker 1: is the former Liberal staff for being sued for defamation

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Speaker 1: by her old boss, sitting Senator Linda Reynolds. Higgins accuses

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Speaker 1: Reynolds of re traumatizing her after Higgins told the senator

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Speaker 1: she'd been raped on Reynolds's office. So far, Reynolds says

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Speaker 1: she didn't no such thing, and the trial has spun

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Speaker 1: into a wild series of allegations and side shows. That's

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Speaker 1: today's story. The biggest news story of twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: was the Bruce Lammon versus Network ten defamation trial. The

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Speaker 1: man accused of rape by Brittany Higgins sued the TV

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Speaker 1: station and it's star journalist and lost in spectacular fashion.

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Speaker 2: I'm satisfied that it is more likely than not that

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Speaker 2: mister Lehmann's state of mind was such that he was

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Speaker 2: so intent upon gratification to be indifferent to Miss Higgins's

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Speaker 2: consent and hence where head was sexual intercourse without caring

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Speaker 2: whether she consented.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was then. Now we're living through a trial

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Speaker 1: that makes Lehman versus Ten look like a fairly minor skirmish.

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Speaker 1: Reynolds versus Higgins is total war, shock and awe. There

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Speaker 1: are so many battlefronts it's hard to keep up. The

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Speaker 1: action is raging inside court and out, and especially in

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Speaker 1: the place where it all began, social media. This time,

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Speaker 1: Brittany Higgins is the defendant and the plaintiff is a

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Speaker 1: former cabinet minister in the Morrison government, Linda Reynolds, who

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Speaker 1: for being wrongfully accused.

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Speaker 3: At geting no words to adequately describe what it is

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Speaker 3: like being accused of covering up the rape of a

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Speaker 1: The case is being heard in the West Australian Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court and we're using voice actors to bring you the

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Speaker 1: words spoken in court. First up, Linda Reynolds.

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Speaker 3: I found it almost impossible to process mentally. All of

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Speaker 3: a sudden, in the space of a couple of days,

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Speaker 3: as someone who would do something so despicable.

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Speaker 1: Reynolds is suing over tweets and Instagram stories by Higgins

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Speaker 1: and her husband David Sharraz made in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: She says they were published as part of a plan

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Speaker 1: by Higgins and Charaz, a conspiracy to inflict immediate political

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Speaker 4: This is from a current Australian senator who continues to

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Speaker 4: of solving the problem. There are people who would prefer

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Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds says the posts imputed that she was a

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Speaker 1: hypocrite who didn't care about women's equality and who had

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Speaker 1: deliberately minimized Higgins's account of rape, something Reynold says she'd

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Speaker 3: They're incredibly hurtful. They are making allegations I know are

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Speaker 1: She said. On one occasion, Charraz posted I see you.

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Speaker 3: When someone says Linda, I see you, Apart from a

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Speaker 1: All this happened two years after Higgins first told her

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Speaker 1: to Tend's TV show The Project and to news dot Com.

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Speaker 5: Claims of rape roadblocks to a police investigation, and a

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Speaker 1: Higgins said in her Project interview that Reynolds and her

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Speaker 7: Sort of came back to sort of being a mere issue,

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Speaker 1: Remember, Linda Reynolds brought this case to court. There have

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Speaker 1: been months of failed attempts to mediate and at one

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Speaker 4: Senator Reynolds and Fiona Brown have also been hurt, and

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Speaker 4: for that, I am also sorry. My perceptions and feelings

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Speaker 4: rape are different from theirs. I deeply regret that we

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Speaker 4: have not yet found common ground so we can resolve

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Speaker 1: It didn't help. Fruz Laman is appealing the finding in

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Speaker 1: the earlier trial, and he's always denied raping Brittany Higgins.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, the Reynolds versus Higgins trial opened with Reynolds's barrister,

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Speaker 1: Martin bennettesc indicating this trial was going to be big.

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Speaker 6: Miss Higgins reconstructed in her mind a series of events

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Speaker 6: used to damnify my client. Every fairy tale needs a villain.

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Speaker 6: Miss Higgins and her then partner and now husband, mister

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Speaker 6: Schiraz cast Senator Reynolds in that role for their fictional

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Speaker 6: story of a cover up of the rape. The fact

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Speaker 6: she had been raped was traumatic and terrible, but it

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Speaker 6: needed something more to attract the attention, to attract media interest,

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Speaker 6: to attract the promotion of Miss Higgins. So she made

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Speaker 6: it a political sex scandal. That's the fiction that needed

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Speaker 6: a villain, and she cast Linda Reynolds in that role.

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Speaker 1: Bennett referenced to photographs of Higgins after the alleged rape

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, smiling and laughing on the campaign trail

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Speaker 1: in WA, not sitting alone in her room, ostracized and isolated,

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Speaker 1: as she'd claimed. He also quoted texts sent by Higgins

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Speaker 4: My day has been awesome, mostly spent poolside. It's been

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Speaker 4: really nice, liking the WA office. I can't wait for

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Speaker 4: the ANZAC Day festivities.

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Speaker 1: What became clear this week is that the attacks on

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Speaker 1: Reynolds by Higgins up until now are nothing compared to

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Speaker 1: what's coming. In her opening address to the court, Higgins's barrister,

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Speaker 1: Rachel Young sc demonstrated Higgins is now going to attempt

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Speaker 1: to prove the truth of what she says is Reynolds's

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Speaker 1: misconduct in court where she has absolute privilege to say

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Speaker 8: Miss Higgins's truth. Her truth as to the rape is

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Speaker 8: uncontested by the Senator. Young took issue with Bennett's description

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Speaker 8: of Higgins's case as a fairy tale that needed a villain.

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Speaker 8: She said it was no fairy tale for the Senator,

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Speaker 8: through her oral and written opening, to suggest it may

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Speaker 1: Young said Higgins's case would show that Reynold's handling of

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Speaker 8: Miss Higgins was a junior employee without job security who

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Speaker 8: had been raped at work. The power discrepancy is palpable.

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Speaker 1: And Young questioned the very basis of Reynold's claim.

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Speaker 8: The focus of her case relies upon a novel extension

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Speaker 8: of the law of aggravated damages and taught conspiracy. The

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Speaker 8: conspiracy was later added by the Senator, is wrong and

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Speaker 8: should not be.

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Speaker 1: Found coming up the dramatic out of courts scuffles going

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Speaker 1: In recent days, Linda Reynolds has given emotional evidence under

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Speaker 3: I was standing there in incredible pain. I'd stood up

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Speaker 3: every single day, I'd faced down the questions. I just

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday, sheoked the twenty twenty two death of Senator

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Speaker 1: Kimberly Kitching, a labor politician who died of a heart attack.

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Speaker 1: Reynolds said that before she died, Kitching had told her

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Speaker 1: Labor was coming to get Reynolds over Higgins' allegations.

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Speaker 3: I was completely incredulous. I said to her, why would

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Speaker 3: anybody reponize such an incident. I still can't find them

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Speaker 1: To believe, Reynolds said. After the incident with Lemon, she

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Speaker 3: I thanked her for her great work. I was genuinely

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Speaker 1: She had stepped up, Reynold said, She admitted calling Higgins

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Speaker 3: I was incredibly angry. I was incredibly hurt. She probably

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Speaker 3: didn't even realize this, but she couldn't have picked a

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Speaker 1: Brittney Higgins is not in Perth for this trial yet

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Speaker 1: the court has heard. She's in France, where she and

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Speaker 1: Schiraz bought and then sold of property in a small village.

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Speaker 1: On Monday, she posted.

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Speaker 4: This pertinent reading.

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Speaker 1: With a screenshot of a book title, how Many More Women,

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Speaker 1: How the Law Silences Women. Reynolds said this about the post.

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Speaker 3: It's just validated why I'm taking these proceedings, because she

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Speaker 1: Then a skirmish broke out about a crowdfunding page started

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Speaker 1: for Higgins by another famous advocate for survivors of sexual

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Speaker 1: assault Saxon Mullins. The fundraising page says this.

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Speaker 5: Many hoped the judgment would mark the end of this

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Speaker 5: legal saga and Brittany be free to move on and

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Speaker 5: heal in private. However, Brittany is now being sued for

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Speaker 5: defamation by a former boss. Bruce Lehman, who denies the rape,

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Speaker 1: As soon as court resumed, Martin Bennett, the lawyer for

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Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds, told the judge this was an attempt.

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Speaker 6: To capture some public opinion.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Young, Higgins's barrister, said it was beyond any stretch

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Speaker 1: of the imagination that the fundraising page was connected to

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Speaker 1: Higgins and Scharraz's alleged conspiracy to defame the Senator. The judge,

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Speaker 1: just as Paul Tottle, granted a subpoena which means Higgins

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Speaker 1: team has to hand over any communications about that page.

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Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds mentioned in court on Wednesday another social post

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Speaker 1: by Higgins in which she.

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Speaker 4: Wrote, I won't stay silent so you can stay comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Reynolds said this.

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Speaker 3: I can assure you taking these proceedings, putting my house

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Speaker 3: on the line, everything that I've worked for for forty years,

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Speaker 3: Putting everything on the line to be able to be

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Speaker 3: here today and tell the truth that just took the cake.

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Speaker 3: We're not doing this to stay comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Later in this trial, Brittaney Higgins herself will give evidence.

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Speaker 1: Her time in the witness box is set down for

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Speaker 1: five full days, but before that, Higgins's barrister will cross

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Speaker 1: examine Linda Reynolds. We've got live updates from the courtroom

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