As the future of the NDIS was debated after the budget,outgoing Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes fought back tears as she revealed her autistic son had had his plan cut.
Former chief-of-staff Fiona Brown,who was a key witness in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial,is suing the Commonwealth in the latest lawsuit to come from the case.
Maverick Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe does not care if her stunts end her parliamentary career as she doubled down on her decision to interrupt the royal visit.
Brittany Higgins’ tearful interview over her alleged rape aired in 2021 was watched by more than half-a-million people – including Linda Reynolds,seeing her political downfall in real time.
Independent MPs slammed parliament’s new standards agency,saying it was a toothless major party “stitch-up”,while Linda Reynolds called its creators “hypocritical”.
Reynolds’ lawyer Martin Bennett used the final day of his closing address on Wednesday to take the WA Supreme Court through a series of exchanges between Higgins and her now-husband David Sharaz.
Linda Reynolds made a shock appearance just before 11am,sitting in the front row of the public gallery before her lawyer lambasted Brittany Higgins for “trivialising” his client’s suffering and revealed a high-profile anchor finessed one of her public addresses.
Brittany Higgins’ lawyer has branded former defence minister Linda Reynolds’ defamation action as having the lowest of motives,and attacked the reliability of her testimony.
From diary entries to text messages with senior political figures and journalists,lawyers for Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins have pored over the final documents to become evidence in their defamation row.
Linda Reynolds’ lawyers have lost a bid to grill Brittany Higgins’ doctor after claiming to have uncovered two “materially different” psychiatric reports inked on the same day,one of which underpinned the former staffer’s $2.4 million payout.