Brittany Higgins

A former political staffer gave "various versions" about why he went to Parliament House on the morning he allegedly raped Brittany Higgins, including a claim ...

Bruce Lehrmann, right, arrives at his trial over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins, left, on Tuesday. Pictures by Karleen Minney.

Chief justice Lucy McCallum to preside over two-month trial in ACT supreme court which had been delayed due to pretrial publicity.

Several text messages sent by Brittany Higgins to a friend in the days following her alleged sexual assault in parliament have been read out in court.

A former political staffer gave "various versions" about why he went to Parliament House on the morning he allegedly raped Brittany Higgins, including a claim ...

Steve Wyborn tells court Australians had been 'sold a pup' with Higgins's allegations Lehrmann sexually assaulted her in Parliament House.

The trial of the man accused of sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House has begun in Canberra.

Bruce Lehrmann, right, arrives at his trial over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins, left, on Tuesday. Pictures by Karleen Minney. The Australian public has been "sold a pup" with the story of an alleged rape in Parliament House, according to a ...

These days, I cover the ACT and Queanbeyan courts. After stints in New Zealand, the UK and the Canary Islands, I returned to Australia in 2018. Advertisement Mr Whybrow urged jurors to consider that Ms Higgins had not made a formal complaint to police until after the "massive media story" of her allegations had broken, turning the case into a "cause celebre". Mr Drumgold told jurors Lehrmann had also described returning to the building to pick up keys to his apartment and to drink whisky, both of which were "highly unlikely" to be true. The Australian public has been "sold a pup" with the story of an alleged rape in Parliament House, according to a defence barrister who says not even the "mundane" truth could stand in its way.

Brittany Higgins was seen wiping away tears during the first day of the trial of Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of raping her in Parliament House in 2019.

I thought we were getting to the point where it was a better relationship, being so adversarial. Ms Higgins said at that point she felt as if time had passed and the accused was “almost finished”. She said at the end of the night there was a suggestion that she and Mr Lehrmann should share a taxi as they both lived in the same direction. During the night, Ms Higgins said the evening appeared to be going quite well and Mr Lehrmann was being quite responsive to her. The court heard Ms Higgins had a “strange adversarial relationship” with the accused and that he was trying to “carve out space” in the office. Part of the group were defence industry contacts that Ms Higgins knew, and another part of the group were some of her colleagues from Parliament House that she had invited along to the drinks, including Mr Lehrmann.

Text messages sent by Brittany Higgins to a friend following her alleged sexual assault have been read to the court on the first day of the Canberra trial.

The trial of former Parliament House staffer Bruce Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins underway in the ACT Supreme Court.

Brittany Higgins broke down in a Canberra courtroom after a video where she said she had a “strange adversarial relationship” with the man she alleges ...

The trial of Brittany Higgins' alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann has begun in Canberra, with Higgins giving evidence on day one.

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Brittany Higgins will take the stand again as the jury is shown the remainder of the police interview where she levelled sexual assault allegations against ...

or inconvenient as the fact these allegations were not true,” he said. She reached out to Ms Harmer after her minister – Steven Ciobo – announced his resignation. The second part of a police interview Ms Higgins gave in late February 2021 was played to the jury on Wednesday morning, with Ms Higgins returning to the stand for a second day.

The Australian public has been "sold a pup" with the story of an alleged rape in Parliament House, according to a defence barrister who says not even the ...

These days, I cover the ACT and Queanbeyan courts. After stints in New Zealand, the UK and the Canary Islands, I returned to Australia in 2018. Advertisement Mr Whybrow urged jurors to consider that Ms Higgins had not made a formal complaint to police until after the "massive media story" of her allegations had broken, turning the case into a "cause celebre". Mr Drumgold told jurors Lehrmann had also described returning to the building to pick up keys to his apartment and to drink whisky, both of which were "highly unlikely" to be true. The Australian public has been "sold a pup" with the story of an alleged rape in Parliament House, according to a defence barrister who says not even the "mundane" truth could stand in its way.

Bruce Lehrmann, Brittany Higgins and lawyers involved in the trial arrive at court on Tuesday. Brittany Higgins has described waking up on a couch in Parliament ...

Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to raping Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in March 2019; The court heard more of Ms Higgins's first police interview ...