Last week, Bruce Lehrmann took the stand for the first day of his defamation trial against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.

The former Liberal staffer is suing the network, and Wilkinson, for what he says are their allegations in atelevision interview that he raped his former colleague, Brittany Higgins, in Parliament House in 2019.

Lehrmann has always strenuously denied the allegations against him.

Today, legal affairs reporter Michaela Whitbourn on what the court case has revealed about Lehrmann’s changing story with what happened that night in Parliament House, and the continuing fallout from one of the most damaging political sagas in modern Australian history. 

Last week, Bruce Lehrmann took the stand for the first day of his defamation trial against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.
The former Liberal staffer is suing the network, and Wilkinson, for what he says are their allegations in a television interview that he raped his former colleague, Brittany Higgins, in Parliament House in 2019.
Lehrmann has always strenuously denied the allegations against him.
Today, legal affairs reporter Michaela Whitbourn on what the court case has revealed about Lehrmann’s changing story with what happened that night in Parliament House, and the continuing fallout from one of the most damaging political sagas in modern Australian history.

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