![]() As like a sort of, a sounding board about what it’s like. And just sort of, for your background, I guess. To which Ms Higgins replied: 'Yeah, exactly. They were both in a meeting with Wilkinson and a Channel 10 producerĮventually, Ms Wilkinson said: 'It may mean that we can't use it. Yeah.'īrittany Higgins is pictured with her boyfriend, David Sharaz. Ms Higgins said: 'Even off the record, just for corroboration's sake, I'd be willing to record something of that conversation, if that happens. So, that may be different to ACT rules as well,' he said. ![]() You can somehow get away with, but then again, Canberra operates, and Parliament House operates in a wacky, wacky world. Mr Llewellyn pointed out there are laws in NSW against recording conversations without the consent of all parties, before he realised Ms Higgins would be in the ACT. Ms Wilkinson turned to her producer Mr Llewellyn, inviting him to answer, saying: 'You're better at legal stuff than me.' But can I record those sort of conversations?' Ms Higgins replied: 'What's the validity of me recording any of these conversations, though? If I did have that conversation, I would feel safer having it recorded. Because we won't get a response from them, if we ask the question. Ms Wilkinson then said: 'What do you think about on the last day, Brittany saying, 'can someone please tell me what happened to my phone? Because all of the data got wiped and that includes all my photos'.' Ms Higgins told the group her personal phone was mysteriously wiped - including screenshots of WhatsApp conversations with Senator Cash and her former boss, then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds. However, in the January 2021 meeting, Ms Higgins said she had been compiling the information to use as evidence, and said all devices used by parliamentary staffers had software installed by the government.īrittany Higgins is pictured, left, outside ACT Supreme Court in October last year His trial on the charges ended without a verdict as the jury was dismissed when one juror brought in outside material for consideration.ĭuring the pre-show conversation, the group spoke extensively about Ms Higgins' experience working as an assistant media advisor for former Employment Minister Michaelia Cash in the years after her alleged assault.Ī court previously heard Ms Higgins disclosed her alleged rape to various colleagues, including Senator Cash, but ultimately decided not to take the matter to police because she feared she would lose her job. Mr Lehrmann has always denied the allegations. The purpose of the lunch was to decide how best to approach Ms Higgins' forthcoming interview on The Project, which was broadcast two weeks later, in which she alleged she was raped by Mr Lehrmann in Parliament House in 2019. The meeting between Ms Wilkinson and Ms Higgins came during a long lunch, five days before her rape allegations against fellow political staffer Bruce Lehrmann were aired on television. She added: 'The encouragement to record a phone call and to jurisdiction shop to find a forum in which there might be a loophole - that is incredibly disturbing for all Australians, that a news outlet would encourage someone to do that. 'I would call on Channel 10 to formally release the five hours so we can all actually see what went on in this interview,' she said. Ms Cash blasted Wilkinson and her producer's alleged behaviour for encouraging Ms Higgins to record her and called for the Channel 10 to release the full transcript of the lunch. 'All of Australia should actually see what went on in that interview - that a senior journalist in Lisa Wilkinson, and the producer of The Project would actively have encouraged a young woman in a distressed situation to basically commit what is considered to be an illegal offense.' 'Channel 10, The Project and Lisa Wilkinson have some very, very serious questions to answer,' Senator Cash told Sky News on Sunday morning. Ms Cash said she believed Channel 10, The Project and Lisa Wilkinson (pictured) some 'very, very serious questions to answer'
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