Last week, as part of Senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation action against her former staffer Brittany Higgins, hundreds of texts were tendered between news.com.au political editor Samantha Maiden and David Sharaz, now Higgins’ husband. They detailed some of the discussions that would lead to one of the most consequential political stories of the past decade after Higgins went public with her allegations that she was raped by fellow Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann at Parliament House.
This tranche of texts is just the latest release of material across more than a dozen court cases and inquiries into the matter.
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