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Brittany Higgins has demanded the media cease publishing the non-public contents of her cellphone after her diary notes had been leaked to the press.
The Weekend Australian referred to the previous political staffer’s diary contents in an interview with her ex-boss Senator Linda Reynolds on Saturday.
Responding to the article, Ms Higgins mentioned it was the third time The Australian had revealed “non-public pictures, texts and WhatsApps from my cellphone”.
In a collection of Twitter posts on Saturday, Ms Higgins mentioned she had given the police a photograph of a web page from her diary in 2021 for his or her investigation.
“I voluntarily offered this materials to the police to assist them kind the transient of proof and none of it was tabled in court docket,” she mentioned.
“Subsequently, no journalist ought to have seen the photograph of my diary.”
Ms Higgins mentioned: “Cease publishing the non-public contents of my cellphone.
“I entrusted the police with my non-public info for the only function that it may assist their investigation into my sexual assault, nothing else,” she mentioned.
The diary contents listed conferences with a collection of journalists and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in March 2021.
In one other Twitter submit early on Sunday, Ms Higgins mentioned The Weekend Australian had painted Senator Reynolds as a “sufferer” over the “mendacity cow” remark.
Ms Higgins acquired a damages payout after Senator Reynolds referred to as her a “mendacity cow” which the politician instructed the newspaper had been in reference to claims she had didn’t help her workers.
Senator Reynolds mentioned she paid damages to Ms Higgins out of her personal pocket “for it to go away”.
Ms Higgins responded on Twitter: “Let me see if I am following. I am publicly defamed by my former employer. I donated the cash to charity as a result of all I needed was an apology and a retraction.
“And but…in some way Linda Reynolds is the sufferer on this situation?”
Ms Higgins mentioned she needed to make it clear that she had donated the cash to charity.
“I donated all funds from my defamation case towards Senator Reynolds to a sexual assault charity the second they had been acquired by my lawyer in 2021,” Ms Higgins mentioned, posting a replica of the receipt.
In The Weekend Australian’s interview with Senator Reynolds, the previous Protection Minister claimed she was the sufferer of a “very well-orchestrated political hit” to take her and the then coalition authorities down.
Ms Higgins accused fellow staffer Bruce Lehrmann of raping her contained in the Parliament Home workplace of Ms Reynolds, who they each labored for, in 2019.
Mr Lehrmann’s felony trial within the ACT Supreme Court docket was lower brief in October due to juror misconduct.
Prosecutors later dropped the fees over considerations of the impression a second trial would have on Ms Higgins’ psychological well being.
Mr Lehrmann denies the rape allegation, sustaining he and Ms Higgins by no means had any sexual interplay.
Mr Lehrmann’s trial heard options Ms Reynolds was primarily involved with the impression the rape declare may have on the upcoming federal election when she met with Ms Higgins after the alleged assault.
Ms Reynolds categorically denied the suggestion in the course of the trial and she or he instructed The Australian the accusation was “like a stake by my coronary heart”.
“Brittany’s story was excellent for the MeToo motion and for these of my colleagues within the Senate who had been making an attempt to carry down the federal government,” she instructed the newspaper.
Mr Lehrmann is suing a number of media retailers over their protection of the rape allegations, whereas the ACT authorities has launched an unbiased inquiry into the dealing with of Ms Higgins’ grievance by police, prosecutors and a victims’ help service.
Ms Higgins reached a confidential settlement with the Commonwealth final 12 months, reported to be price a number of million {dollars}, over her claims of sexual harassment and discrimination at parliament.
– with AAP
