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Forensic judgment proves rape, debunks political cover-up
Justice Lee’s factual pushback at some of the unthinking cultural warfare that has overwhelmed politics and media in recent times has performed a great service.
Brittany Higgins was raped in the Parliament House office of then-defence minister Linda Reynolds. But there was no political cover-up by the Morrison government.
That claim was the big story in Network Ten’s edition of The Project which Bruce Lehrmann sued for defamation so disastrously in his belief that the program had also identified him as the rapist.
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