Liberal senator gives evidence at defamation trial about why she chose to leak confidential information to the Australian columnist. Plus: Four Corners to air exposé on Seven
Linda Reynolds, centre, outside the Western Australian supreme court. The Liberal senator is suing Brittany Higgins for defamation over a series of social media posts she says damaged her reputation.Linda Reynolds, centre, outside the Western Australian supreme court. The Liberal senator is suing Brittany Higgins for defamation over a series of social media posts she says damaged her reputation.
“I believe she was fair and balanced,” Reynolds said. She told the court her lawyers wrote a cease and desist letter to the journalist, who had been “horrific” to staff.“It wasn’t my truth, it was the truth,” Reynolds said as to why she leaked finance department advice given to her in March 2019 about Higgins to Albrechtsen.
Creighton: “Sir, recently the influential media magnate Rupert Murdoch said that, in his view, he did not think the US would come to the aid of Taiwan if China tried to encroach on the island. So what do you make of that sort of assessment?” A former economics editor for the Oz, Creighton drew attention to himself during the pandemic by criticising public health responses to Covid-19; and in particularHe characterised strict lockdowns as an affront to personal liberty and called them “health fascism”. Creighton is still on the war path over health policy, writing on X a few weeks ago: “Purely anecdotal but I’m finding the most boosted people tend to get recurring bouts of Covid most often. Biden a reminder, many others.
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