Senator Gallagher told reporters it was “never true” that she had known about Higgins’ allegations for weeks, or that Labor had decided to weaponise them.
with the Commonwealth in December 2022 after she launched legal action against her employers in the former Morrison government.
Gallagher said during a Senate hearing on June 4, 2021, that “no one” had any knowledge of Higgins’ claim before it was made public on February 15, 2021. She accused Reynolds of trying to protect herself when the then-Coalition minister suggested Labor MPs, including Gallagher and Penny Wong, had been tipped off about the allegations before details were published in the media.
Wong said she did not know the details of the allegations before the story became public, and she had never made any details of the case public.“There are others who did know a lot of detail, including Morrison government ministers, and they have still failed to account for what they did with that information.”described the opposition attack on Gallagher as “bizarre”.
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