Marise Payne has described watching Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds shaking, breathing heavily, tearing up and gripping her desk amid questioning over Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape.
Former foreign affairs minister Marise Payne has described watching Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds shaking, breathing heavily, and gripping her desk in the parliamentary chamber after days of being “aggressively targeted” over Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape.
I could see she was in the depths of great despair about what had been alleged about her personally and professionally“Senator Reynolds was under an enormous amount of pressure from questioning, pressure I have rarely seen before or since,” Payne told the court. Reynolds was then treated for a cardiac condition and mental health issues, which her doctor has told the court were exacerbated by stress.
Payne conceded part of the stress Reynolds was experiencing was a result of media related to her calling Higgins a “lying cow” in her office and being publicly condemned for it by then-prime minister Scott Morrison.
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