by Nicole Chvastek | Aug 28, 2025 | Justice, Opinion
In a world where there is no nuance, no shades of grey, where angry logic lives in echo chambers of prejudice, the news that rape survivor Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay her former boss, Linda Reynolds, a hefty penalty for a defamation may tempt some to...
by JOHN MALONEY | Jun 24, 2024 | Integrity
Between defamation appeals, counter applications for security payments and hearings on new sexual assault charges, it’s easy to forget how Bruce Lehrmann’s legal journey began. On 27 October 2022, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum, who was overseeing Lehrmann’s criminal...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 17, 2024 | Media
The host of the ABC’s Media Watch will be on his way at the end of the year. After more than a decade – and some 500 episodes – the consensus is that Paul Barry has done a fine job exposing the bad and the ugly of Australia’s media. For all this Media Watching, the...
by RACHEL WITHERS | Apr 18, 2024 | Media
To borrow a phrase from Justice Michael Lee, Senator Linda Reynolds is going back for her hat. The outgoing Liberal senator has made it clear that she will be continuing her defamation case against rape victim Brittany Higgins and her partner David Sharaz over social...
by RACHEL WITHERS | Apr 15, 2024 | Media
Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins. That was the finding handed down by Justice Michael Lee in the long-awaited outcome to the former Liberal staffer’s defamation case – a loss Justice Lee characterised as Lehrmann having “escaped the lion’s den” (referring to the...
