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Reply #420 - Aug 20^th, 2024 at 6:48am

Daves2017 wrote on Aug 20^th, 2024 at 12:51am:

Former staffer Brittany Higgins will no longer be called to take the stand in WA Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation lawsuit against her after her lawyers considered it unnecessary.

There was mention again of her 'mental health' - doesn't stop her doing all the things she likes... or being a 'visiting fellow' in Julia Gillard's pipe dream (while being fed a relative fortune tax-free by you fools) of educating all these lost girls in the idea that they can rule the future by taking over. One day societies in the West will wake up and put a stop to such nonsense, but it will take a collapse of those societies to achieve that.

Won't be long the way things are going............... civil war is upon us now ........... fifth columns are everywhere .............. international unrest is a given ... there are no rumours of wars - only wars ..... soon the descent into chaos will begin in earnest and only the strong will survive.

I'd say, on past performances, her legal eagles are concerned that she will not show well on the stand. Even in The Dread Interview she was hesitant and searching for answers, and the evidence so far is that she was affected in no way at all by any claimed events in PH after midnight. If she doesn't refute that somehow, how is this case to go?

And then the flow-on begins.... will The Deuce be exonerated?

Spy Saga:-

The Liberal Labor Party wanted to infiltrate a deep sleeper agent (Higgins was a Liberal staffer) into Gillard's putsch to shove women to the top everywhere in the West (for easy conquest down the road by the 'patriarchals' under the delusion that she is 'making everyone equal'), so they devised this cunning plot to create a scene in PH out of hours, make a headline out of allegations never to be proven, then established a payout to fund her into setting up in France and getting into the UN... then getting in tight with Gullible Gillard so as to be able to report back what The Red Witch was up to. Thus they could be forewarned of impending further weakening of the West and could set in place counter measures against the growing pressures from the 'patriarchals' exploiting the growing weakness and effeteness of the West.

Of course, the offended Reynolds is a dark horse and may well upset the apple cart - or perhaps this revelatory judicial process is the means of precluding Higgins coming 'home' and setting up in politics here.

In this context 'patriarchals' is not a social science term, other than that it defines nations and religions which are governed by rigid centralised paternalistic governments anathema to the Western Ideal.

Kind of like Richard Tomlinson, NZ ex-pat and former Territorial SAS, imprisoned while an MI6 agent for letting out secrets and now living in the south of France on a boat.. well - he was anyway....

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Reply #421 - Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 1:33pm

Do we need a separate strand about this Reynolds thing? I know all you true believers out there want it to go away - but it won't.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/linda-reynolds-brittany-higgins-defamat...

"WA Senator Linda Reynolds told a journalist she did not know whether her staffer Brittany Higgins had been raped or not in her parliamentary office because she "wasn't in the room", a WA court has been told.

News Corporation journalist Samantha Maiden gave evidence on Wednesday in the defamation action launched by Senator Reynolds against Ms Higgins over a series of social media posts the senator believes were defamatory.

Ms Maiden told the court she had an hour long phone conversation with Senator Reynolds in mid 2022 in which she asked whether Ms Higgins's allegation that she'd been sexually assaulted by Bruce Lehrmann in the Senator's office was true.

""And she said 'I've got no idea, I wasn't in that room, I don't know'," Ms Maiden told the court.
"She never said she thought it was a lie but she didn't say it was true either."

Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins for defamation over a series of social media posts the senator believes were defamatory.

Ms Maiden broke the story of Ms Higgins's rape allegations in February 2021 and won a Gold Walkley award for her efforts.

Earlier the court was played tape recordings of interviews with Ms Higgins made by Ms Maiden in January 2021 in which she tells the journalist she believed she had become a liability to her boss after she was allegedly raped in Parliament House in March 2019.

After the incident, Ms Higgins said her boss hated her because of the impact it could have on her career, having recently been promoted to Defence Minister.

Ms Higgins had only been working for the senator for about four weeks at this point.

"She avoided being in photos, avoided being near me like I was toxic," Ms Higgins told Ms Maiden in the recordings.

"She hated me.

"She worked her entire life to finally get Minister for Defence, and … in her first two weeks ... some little twitch she doesn't know, gets assaulted her office.

"Still to this day she hates me."

The court was also shown a text message from Ms Maiden to Ms Higgins that read "having played my little part in your operation has been one of the greatest moments in journalism I've ever had".

Questioned about it by Senator Reynolds's lawyer Martin Bennett, Ms Maiden said she was referring to the story and its implications.

"I was very … proud of her, the issues that she had raised. I thought they were very important," Ms Maiden said.

"She went on to change the law, and I thought that she was showing a great deal of bravery in what she had done at great personal cost.

"I was very impressed by it."

In cross examination, Ms Higgins's lawyer Rachael Young asked Ms Maiden if Ms Higgins had ever, during their many conversations and interviews, stated "that her desire in speaking to you was to bring down the Morrison government?"

Part of Senator Reynolds's statement of claim against Ms Higgins is that she and her partner David Sharaz orchestrated a campaign to politically damage her and to bring down the government.

However, Ms Maiden said she had not.

Ms Young also referred to messages Ms Maiden exchanged with Labor Senators Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher about the issue, which the journalist said were part of the normal investigative processes she regularly undertook when researching stories.

"Were you acting as a conduit or advocate for Ms Higgins?" Ms Young asked.

"Absolutely not," Ms Maiden replied.

Senator Reynolds's defamation case revolves around her belief Ms Higgins's social media posts imply she failed to support her staffer in the aftermath of her alleged 2019 rape and that she wanted to silence rape survivors.

Lehrmann's 2022 rape trial was abandoned due to juror misconduct and Ms Higgins's ill health prevented a re-trial, but a judge in a civil case found he did rape Ms Higgins on the balance of probabilities.

Lehrmann has always maintained his innocence and is appealing the civil court's decision.

On Monday the court heard Ms Higgins would no longer be called to testify in her defence, with her lawyer Rachael Young SC citing medical grounds among the reasons for the change of plans.

The trial will continue tomorrow with evidence from former Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Leanne Close, who is the last witness scheduled to testify."

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Reply #422 - Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 2:17pm

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/couch-claim-in-higgins-trial-against-se...

"The last witness in senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation battle with Brittany Higgins has taken to the stand, telling the court the senator pointed to a lounge in her office and said “that’s where it occurred”.

Former Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Leanne Close has been called to give evidence about a meeting she had with Senator Reynolds after Ms Higgins made a complaint with police about her alleged rape.

Taking to the stand on Thursday morning, Ms Close told the court how Senator Reynolds pointed to the lounge in her office and said “that’s where it occurred.”....
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...... The former Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner gave evidence about a meeting she had with Senator Reynolds and her chief of staff Fiona Brown on April 4, 2021.

Ms Close said she did not realise at that point they were talking about a sexual assault in the senator’s office.

She told the court she had presumed the alleged sexual assault occurred in the ministerial suite outside the office area."

Sounds like Close is prone to assuming.... WHAT occurred on the couch? Higgins in a state of semi-undress? Higgins sleeping it off? A cup of tea with the PM? The security staff's noticing her state? WHAT EXACTLY?

More likely - "That's where the alleged attack occurred" - I doubt Reynolds, on history to date, would say anything else.

Remember the VC-10 crash at Heathrow.... "Pull that in!" ... young and fearful of older pilot co-pilot pulls in lever for slats - plane drops to ground like a shot bird.

That's where IT occurred....... so Reynolds wasn't specific about what IT was??? Counldn't be since she couldn't say what had happened without being there ................... just like you blood hungry mob.

"Ms Maiden interviewed Ms Higgins weeks before the story was published at her home in Canberra over dinner with dumplings."

"Now, Herr Ballespetites.... was it the interview over dinner with dumplings or the publication of the story over dinner with dumplings or a story published about a dinner with dumplings? We take our grammar VERY seriously in the Fourth estate, you see? Many people are so careless with their use of grammar these days...... feminised education system you see - any words will do as long as they obscure the reality. All reality is malleable, you see - so yours could disappear in an instant...."

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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 792 Gender:	Re: High Profile Case in Toowoomba Reply #423 - Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 11:10pm Imo Reynolds is hoping to win so she can secure a huge payout not from Brittany but us the taxpayer. I think she's going to achieve that goal as well tbh.
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Re: High Profile Case in Toowoomba
Reply #424 - Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 4:42am

Daves2017 wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 11:10pm:

Imo Reynolds is hoping to win so she can secure a huge payout not from Brittany but us the taxpayer.

I think she's going to achieve that goal as well tbh.

Yes - the way it is phrased about her 'career' - we don't want 'career politicians' - we want politicians dedicated to their work for the nation and its people.

There is always a reserve bench:-

https://www.9news.com.au/national/senator-linda-reynolds-hits-higgins-with-fresh...

Here it is drawing the Higgins cash out so it can be accessed in the event of a win.

Footnote:- Higgins was well advised and clearly there was a plan, since the money has been removed from her personal hands and placed firstly in a trust that she controlled and then in a trust managed by someone else.... no access to it for Higgins' personal liability. One reason I've called for a total review of trusts for years now.... to no avail.... you out there in Dorkville forget that these 'rules' were set up when only the rich had money and power, including the vote, and wanted ways to avoid paying tax and other things such as liabilities and debts. How quickly you never even know about such things.

As for The Deuce of Toowoomba:-

The Law is meant to be the seawall against which the tsunamis of opinions wash and break......a breakwater on emotional views.... not the purveyor of those views.

- Rastus Xavier.

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Reply #426 - Aug 29^th, 2024 at 1:40pm

Daves2017 wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 10:34am:

Absolutely everything about Reynolds is suspect to me.

The whole thing is suspect to me - though what I can see in Reynolds is her training - not jumping to conclusions without fact. None of them come out smelling of roses...

anyway - now remember this is not directly about any rape allegation, so watch your emotional filters - my question is now (first time this has been revealed that I've seen) if she went for 'counselling' within days - why was there no follow-up in any way from anyone and why did she not use that as evidence that something had actually taken place?

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/phone-messages-contradict-brittany-higg...

"Brittany Higgins had counselling within days of her alleged rape in Parliament House, contradicting her claims to media none was available for months, a defamation trial has been told.

Higgins is fighting her former boss, senator Linda Reynolds, over a series of social media posts the ex-defence minister believes damaged her reputation.

The senator's lawyer, Martin Bennett, told a Perth court a voice message from a Canberra Rape Crisis Centre counsellor revealed Higgins had an appointment within eight days of her alleged sexual assault in the senator's ministerial suite on March 23, 2019.

"It's an audio file where [a counsellor] is saying, 'We met last Monday [April 8, 2019]'," he told the Western Australian Supreme Court on Wednesday during document tendering.
"It's the provision of counselling services to Ms Higgins from April 8th onwards, this having been instituted on April 1."

Bennett said Higgins told News Corp journalist Samantha Maiden she tried to contact the parliament employee support service and was told she would have to wait a month for counselling.

"By the time it gets to The Project interview, it's a wait of two months," he said.

Bennett said documents showed an employee program organised an appointment for Higgins with a psychologist on April 11.

"Ms Higgins didn't take that up because she was already seeing [the Canberra Rape Crisis Centre counsellor]," he said.

"It's this failure on the part of Ms Higgins to mention either in The Project interview or to Ms Maiden that she was getting counselling that is relevant ... for the support that was offered and not taken up."

Higgins' lawyer Rachael Young said her client's allegations about a delay related to the employee assistance program not the rape crisis centre.

Bennett brought photos of Higgins' diary to the attention of the court.

He said it was relevant because it showed the former staffer and her husband David Sharaz were working with members of the Australian Labor Party in August 2020 "discussing the plan".

"[Laura] Tingle is a journalist," Bennet said as he read other diary entries to the court.

"Drinks with Lucy and Malcolm is a reference to Lucy and Malcolm Turnbull and there's a significant note on the right-hand card ... 'buy white dress'."

Justice Paul Tottle disagreed but he admitted various emails and phone messages he deemed helpful.

Bennett said a series of communications revealed Higgins had been with her ex-boyfriend on April 3 when she had taken a day off work, telling the senator's office she had a medical appointment.

"Went out to dinner with my former boyfriend, stayed the night at this hotel, went to drinks and a party and I didn't go to the doctor's appointment I told people I had gone to," he said, reading one of Higgins' messages.

Bennett said Higgins had deleted 15 messages between herself and Sharaz during discovery as he unsuccessfully fought to exclude some evidence from the case.

"We've always put that Ms Higgins before she produced her phone for police curated her messages [but] this is more than that, this is at the time of discovery," he said.

"Deletion is destruction of evidence."

Bennett attempted to tender documents related to Higgins' $2.4 million federal government settlement and Reynolds' Commonwealth-appointed lawyers "entertaining a 'lying cow' submission" a year after it had been settled in another legal action.

"These are matters which we want to elevate to show the legitimacy of Senator Reynolds' fury at this conduct and determination to refer it ... to the National Anti-Corruption Commission," he said.

"Not to harass Ms Higgins but to deal with something poorly handled."

Bennett foreshadowed further court action against the lawyers and the government.

Justice Tottle said he would think about the matter."

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Reply #427 - Aug 29^th, 2024 at 1:50pm

"Bennett foreshadowed further court action against the lawyers and the government."

Aha! The lunge for Reynolds Money payout!! How much is this mishandled on all sides affair going to cost the taxpayer? Not that there's anything wrong with that ..... if only the security staff had made a report to AFP instantly of a POSSIBLE event inside PH ..... none of this madness would go on and on...

Meanwhile the only positive is that Agent B has successfully infiltrated Gillard's international sheila communist movement significantly funded by the New Commo UN ..... remember what I said about choosing an agent...... look at the one least likely ......................

Aussie Sparrow ......

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Reply #428 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 4:26pm

The Lawyer Ms Young has a point!!!

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Brittany Higgins's lawyer delivers rebuke of senator Linda Reynolds testimony in defamation trial

Ill health pre-dated social media posts

Ms Young also said Senator Reynolds was trying to sue Ms Higgins for events that happened years before the contentious social media posts were published — events that caused feelings of "distress and upset" because of the "political accountability" she had been forced to face in the wake of the rape allegations being made public.

In seeking damages, Ms Young said, the senator had "besmirched those she blamed for her political demise".

She said Senator Reynolds had failed to produce evidence that her heart condition had escalated since the publication of the social media posts in 2023, and there was evidence of her heart problems existing as early as 2018.

"It is also a significant factor that the senator had pre-existing mental and physical issues, and it is also significant that she was unable to retain the defence portfolio due to her ill health," Ms Young told the court.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/linda-reynolds-brittany-higgins-david-sha...

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Reply #429 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 4:42pm

No - she is suing Higgins for the posts and their effect on her..... and for any associated nastiness that came before, such as accusing Reynolds of things witnesses say she did not say or do.

Don't worry too much - Reynolds will cop a handout from The Guv as well... just read carefully. It doesn't matter if her case against Agent B makes it or not.... she's already said it caused the government of the day to demote her and cause unbearable stress.

She'll get a Brittany payout as well. The only one not getting a handout is Bruce - but he's a bloke, got piggy eyes, is a beach ball - therefore he must be guilty and incapable of being a victim like everyone else.

You need to think on these things.....

BTW - was Lee handled by a priest or something, to come at his 'insatiable lust drove Bruce' (lack of) decision unsupported opinion? I was watching a long video yesterday about wives of transgender claimant 'men' and the effects on the women and families - and one of them said that her husband had been handled by a priest and so had weird ideas about 'lust' and even sex with her .... thought that after being handled - that's right - by a coven of priests - that all men are relentlessly and unstoppably driven by lust..... that sex was evil ... and he therefore wanted to not be a man...

That's what Lee partly said.... hmmmmmm... Cool

Murkier and murkier this thing ............................

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Reply #430 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 6:43pm

philperth2010 wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 4:26pm:

The Lawyer Ms Young has a point!!!

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Brittany Higgins's lawyer delivers rebuke of senator Linda Reynolds testimony in defamation trial

Ill health pre-dated social media posts

Ms Young also said Senator Reynolds was trying to sue Ms Higgins for events that happened years before the contentious social media posts were published — events that caused feelings of "distress and upset" because of the "political accountability" she had been forced to face in the wake of the rape allegations being made public.

In seeking damages, Ms Young said, the senator had "besmirched those she blamed for her political demise".

She said Senator Reynolds had failed to produce evidence that her heart condition had escalated since the publication of the social media posts in 2023, and there was evidence of her heart problems existing as early as 2018.

"It is also a significant factor that the senator had pre-existing mental and physical issues, and it is also significant that she was unable to retain the defence portfolio due to her ill health," Ms Young told the court.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/linda-reynolds-brittany-higgins-david-sha...

She made far more than just ONE telling point.

But...let's see.

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Reply #431 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 6:45pm

Aussie wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 6:43pm:

philperth2010 wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 4:26pm:

The Lawyer Ms Young has a point!!!

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Brittany Higgins's lawyer delivers rebuke of senator Linda Reynolds testimony in defamation trial

Ill health pre-dated social media posts

Ms Young also said Senator Reynolds was trying to sue Ms Higgins for events that happened years before the contentious social media posts were published — events that caused feelings of "distress and upset" because of the "political accountability" she had been forced to face in the wake of the rape allegations being made public.

In seeking damages, Ms Young said, the senator had "besmirched those she blamed for her political demise".

She said Senator Reynolds had failed to produce evidence that her heart condition had escalated since the publication of the social media posts in 2023, and there was evidence of her heart problems existing as early as 2018.

"It is also a significant factor that the senator had pre-existing mental and physical issues, and it is also significant that she was unable to retain the defence portfolio due to her ill health," Ms Young told the court.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/linda-reynolds-brittany-higgins-david-sha...

She made far more than just ONE telling point.

But...let's see.

True the weight of evidence and the summary by Ms Young was very compelling Aussie???

Huh

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Reply #432 - Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 9:28pm

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/besmirching-those-she-blames-for-politi...

Here's that heroic lawyer in full flight - all emotion and buggar-all substance:-

"Brittany Higgins’ lawyer has branded Liberal senator Linda Reynolds’ defamation case a dogged pursuit to besmirch those she blames for her political demise, including the alleged rape victim at the centre of the scandal that preceded it.

In closing submissions in the WA Supreme Court on Monday, the former staffer’s barrister told the court the former defence minister targeted the “wrong person” in the bid to restore her reputation over what she saw as Higgins’ politicisation of the alleged rape in 2021 via a tell-all interview.

With the benefit of 16 days’ worth of evidence in the trial, Rachael Young, SC, told the court it was clear Reynolds was using several social media posts Higgins published in July 2023 as a “side wind” to claim damages.

“And in that process, besmirch those who she blames for her political demise,” Young, SC, said.

The barrister launched a blistering attack on elements of Reynolds’ testimony, accusing the senator of playing the role of advocate rather than witness in evidence she said was at times “problematic” and “self-serving”.

Young, SC, put to the court it was Reynolds’ own conduct and ailing health that was to blame for the public scrutiny – which she argued was most acute in 2021 – and her eventual demotion from the defence portfolio.

She said while the senator claimed the furore over her handling of the alleged rape in her ministerial office on March 23, 2019, caused her ill health and destroyed her reputation, Young, SC, contended there was no doubt Higgins had and would continue to bear the heaviest burden.

Young, SC, said her client’s decision to go public with the rape allegation via the interview with The Project had caused her great suffering but gave rise to a profound impact on the way gendered violence was addressed in workplaces across the country.

“Without question, the heaviest burden has and will continue to be carried by Ms Higgins, the survivor of a serious crime which has affected every aspect of her life,” she said.

“Ms Higgins considered that her continued silence would make her complicit in any future incident, but out of [her] trauma, she achieved overarching good out of the suffering she endured.”

Reynolds, the former defence minister, is suing Higgins for damages and aggravated damages over social media publications she claims accused her of mishandling the alleged rape by Bruce Lehrmann, brought her into public hatred and damaged her physical and mental health."

So much goona there I don't know where to start... talk about laying a smoke screen... emotive words everywhere.... 'victim'... 'survivor' ... 'side wind' is taking it up to the person who made the comments..... 'heaviest burden' ....what about Deuce the Unproven and The Unfounded Opinion? Just some Catholic choir boy's obsession with men and overwhelming lust... FFS .... probably derived from personal experience...

The Goona is thick here.. sounds desperate.... could be an Academy Award in it though.

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Reply #433 - Sep 3^rd, 2024 at 10:14am

Senator Reynolds was hardly neutral or unbias when she tried to help Mr Lehrmann's defence team smear Brittney Higgins....Senator Reynolds can hardly claim she was supporting Brittney Higgins who was still a public servant working for Minister Cash when she was helping Mr Lehrmann who had been sacked for his conduct....What boss secretly defends someone they sacked whilst claiming they were fully supporting the victim of rape???

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Senator tried to help Lehrmann in rape trial: lawyer

Ms Higgins' lawyer told a Perth court the senator communicated with Mr Lehrmann's defence Steve Whybrow before and during his aborted criminal trial.

"What those 21 messages show is the senator's partisan attitude in favour of the accused," she told the Western Australian Supreme Court on Monday during her closing submissions.

Ms Young said Senator Reynolds gave Mr Whybrow suggestions for potential witnesses and phone numbers to contact them.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/senator-tried-help-lehrmann-rape-173000771.html

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Reply #434 - Sep 3^rd, 2024 at 10:45am

Aussie wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 6:43pm:

philperth2010 wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2024 at 4:26pm:

The Lawyer Ms Young has a point!!!

Quote:

Brittany Higgins's lawyer delivers rebuke of senator Linda Reynolds testimony in defamation trial

Ill health pre-dated social media posts

Ms Young also said Senator Reynolds was trying to sue Ms Higgins for events that happened years before the contentious social media posts were published — events that caused feelings of "distress and upset" because of the "political accountability" she had been forced to face in the wake of the rape allegations being made public.

In seeking damages, Ms Young said, the senator had "besmirched those she blamed for her political demise".

She said Senator Reynolds had failed to produce evidence that her heart condition had escalated since the publication of the social media posts in 2023, and there was evidence of her heart problems existing as early as 2018.

"It is also a significant factor that the senator had pre-existing mental and physical issues, and it is also significant that she was unable to retain the defence portfolio due to her ill health," Ms Young told the court.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/linda-reynolds-brittany-higgins-david-sha...

She made far more than just ONE telling point.

But...let's see.

She ripped her a new one Grin

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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Yes 2 (66.7%) No 1 (33.3%) Total votes: 3 « Created by: Bobby. on: Oct 27^th, 2023 at 1:26pm »