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I hope after this trial, no matter the outcome, that the media absolutely launches at Reynolds and gives her what she deserves. Which is a lot worse than a couple of tweets barely anybody saw or cared about.
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The problem is, the people that defender her behaviour won't care anyway.I hope after this trial, no matter the outcome, that the media absolutely launches at Reynolds and gives her what she deserves. Which is a lot worse than a couple of tweets barely anybody saw or cared about.
It'll be a lesson that if somebody gets r*ped in an office, doesn't matter if you're an Australian Senator, if you go after the victim, you'll be mocked and derided.The problem is, the people that defender her behaviour won't care anyway.
Knowing some dyed in the wool LNP voters, they won't.It'll be a lesson that if somebody gets r*ped in an office, doesn't matter if you're an Australian Senator, if you go after the victim, you'll be mocked and derided.
Knowing some dyed in the wool LNP voters, they won't.
They still consider this a witch hunt and Higgins is as dodgy as Lehrmann.
The Trump bible, of course.Wondering which bible lymo took the oath on
And the USA would tell you they ran it very very well - spending like drunken sailors all in the USA’s directionThese clowns ran our defence portfolio
Yet the biggest waste went to the French. It would be if great if the NACC would look into why their is no paperwork to explain why so many failed projects were awarded to the French by pollies over the objections of defence smes eg. Subs, MRH90, Tiger, ERP, Thales EO, DASR, MU90 etcAnd the USA would tell you they ran it very very well - spending like drunken sailors all in the USA’s direction
Agreed.Everyone should have access to defamation laws.
Politicians generally should not use them.
Not everyone has access to parliamentary privilegeEveryone should have access to defamation laws.
Politicians generally should not use them.
Not everyone has access to parliamentary privilege
And the defamation laws are shit.
Excellent article from Jo Dyer that goes straight to the hear of the evil behind Liberal Senator and former Defence Minister Linda Reynolds ongoing legal pursuit of her former staffer and rape survivor Brittany Higgins.
Dyer knows a fair bit about Liberal politicians, sexual assault allegations and defamation law, having successfully defended action brought against her by former Attorney General Christian Porter in 2020 in relation to her comments made in a Four Corners program about the alleged rape by Porter of her best friend who subsequently committed suicide.
'Throughout her time in the witness box, it became clear just how angry Reynolds had been in the period after Brittany’s story went public. She was angry with Labor Senators about the way they questioned her handling of the rape during Question Time (and was prepared to invoke the name of the now dead Kimberley Kitching in her defence despite contemporaneous documentary evidence from Kitching refuting Reynolds’ account). She was angry about the outfits Brittany wore to Lehrmann’s criminal trial. She was angry at Mark Dreyfus for excluding her from the mediation session that resulted in Brittany’s settlement. She was angry at Peter Dutton for her demotion from the Front Bench after the election. Notably – apart from her choice of attire – Brittany was directly responsible for none of these enraging incidents.
But, of course, if Brittany hadn’t been r*ped, or if she’d kept her story to herself, or if she’d accepted that one tense meeting held at the scene of the crime was sufficient support for an employer (Reynolds) to offer the victim of a workplace crime, then maybe none of the distressing events that happened thereafter would have occurred.
In a bid to prove she was sufficiently supportive of her rape survivor employee, Reynolds is suing her rape survivor employee. She was unmoved by the conciliatory statement and apology Brittany proffered at the conclusion of Lerhmann’s defamation case. She is oblivious to the fact Brittany is now pregnant with her first child. She is unconcerned by Brittany’s mental health challenges that have led to suicidal ideation and hospitalisation. She is indifferent to Brittany’s ongoing trauma resulting from the rape itself. She is suing Brittany despite all the things about which Reynolds is so enraged having happened well before the July Instagram post on which her action is based and, whilst Reynolds’ may believe that her actions as described by Brittany in her post are all completely justified, an outsider may view them as falling well within any reasonable definition of harassment, being undertaken by a thwarted politician hellbent on finding a scapegoat for her own failings, and intent on revenge.
This devastatingly ill-judged lawsuit seems further evidence of that.
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