Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. 

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

Today we’re revisiting one of the biggest stories of the year, the defamation trial brought by a former Liberal staffer by the name of Bruce Lehrmann.

In the episode, which aired in April, Legal affairs reporter Michaela Whitebourn details Justice Michael Lee’s momentous ruling that Lehrmann raped his colleague Brittany Higgins in a minister’s office in parliament house.

Lehrmann, who denies the allegation, has since appealed the court’s decision.