Senator Linda Reynolds's lawyer tries to eviscerate Brittany Higgins's defamation defence by painting her as a deliberate liar who tried to ruin her former boss's career and bring down the Morrison government.
Brittany Higgins "arrogantly" tried to claim she was the person most hurt in the aftermath of her Parliament House rape allegation and used her own trauma as a "catch-all excuse" for the "litany of lies" she told, a WA court has heard.
"Ms Higgins arrogantly, from the sanctity of France, claims the status of the person most seriously affected by this matter and trivialises the hurt to others," Mr Bennett told the court. "The evidence will show that instead of harassing her seconds or challenging the veracity of her rape allegations, Senator Reynolds, at great cost to herself, personally, both physically and mentally, in an act we would describe as quite extraordinary moral courage, kept her promise to … never attack Miss Higgins for her obvious lies."
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